Edgar Bowden
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 104965 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Edgar Bowden |
| PRENOMES | Edgar |
| SOBRENOME | Bowden |
| ASSINATURA | BOWDEN E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Makerere University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Cybele and the Axe-Goddess
Maladministration
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Edgar Bowden; Maladministration : A Thematic Analysis of Nigerian Case Studies in the Context of Administrative Initiative. Human Organization 1 December 1976; 35 (4): 391–394. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.35.4.m426u45954696388 Down…
Three Stages in the Evolution of Slavery in Precivilized Societies
Analysis of a small sample of cross-cultural data suggests that slavery evolves through three stages in precivilized societies. At first, slaves are mainly war captives from other societies and serve primarily to symbolize the dominance of the victor over the vanquished: their economic func tion is minimal. Second, the importance of "dominance slavery" declines as the locus of the dominance struggle shifts to some extent from between to within so…
Further Implications of Cultural Surgency and Sex-Dominance
In the process of standardizing an Index of Sociocultural Development, it was found that male-dominant and equidominant societies differ significantly in their order of acquisition of developmental traits, their cultural elaboration and cultural surgency, the population of their largest settlement and possibly also its population density. These relationships are discussed in terms of the theoretical meaning of sex-dominance and cultural surgency …
Persisting and Disappearing Traits in the Development of Precivilized Societies
Results of the application of a new method of ordinal scaling to a sample of cross-cultural data are presented. The method distinguishes traits which reach a maximum level of development and then decline (D-type) from those which do not decline after reaching a maximum (P-type). Maledominant and equidominant/female-dominant societies are scaled separately and a number of P-type and D-type traits identified, some of the former having previously be…
Standardization of an Index of Sociocultural Development for Precivilized Societies 1
By scaling eighteen of the traits previously found to be important indicators of societal development, the author's Index of Sociocultural Development was brought closer to the status of an equal‐interval ratio scale. Its relation to the logarithm of settlement population as a criterion of societal development was thereby linearised and attained a correlation coefficient of 0.969. Its characteristic exponential relationship with Carneiro's Index …
Cluster Density Analysis of Dimensional Socio-Cultural Evolution Models
A quantitative method is briefly described whereby societal density contours may be constructed at successive cross-sectional levels of the three-dimensional, branching, socio-cultural evolution models described in American Anthropologist 1969, 71(5): 864-870. Considered with the branching model, these cross-sections help to reveal the underlying evolutionary structure, discounting random variations in the sample or excessively complex branchings…
An Index of Sociocultural Development Applicable to Precivilized Societies
An Index of Sociocultural Development constructed by principal‐components analysis correlated highly with the logarithm of precivilized societies' scores on Carneiro's Index of Cultural Accumulation, with the results of a Thurstone‐type Latent‐Distance analysis and with the logarithm of the maximum population of residential settlements in societies. It is suggested that the Indices of Sociocultural Development and Cultural Accumulation measure es…
Indices of Sociocultural Development and Cultural Accumulation
Cameiro's Index of Cultural Accumulation related exponentially to the author's Index of Sociocultural Development. The relationship follows mathematically, as an “exponential cultural growth law,” from the assumption that cultural traits diversify at a constant proportional rate with successive increments of sociocultural development, though the rate may vary from one society to another. This variation is hypothetically dependent upon a factor of…
A Dimensional Model of Multilinear Sociocultural Evolution
Thurstone's latent-distance method was used to find the coordinates of fifty-five societies in a three-dimensional space that has level of sociocultural development as its principal axis. By assuming that the most probable evolutionary precursor of any society was of a type represented by the society at a lower level of development that showed the greatest similarity to it, societies were linked to form a branched evolutionary "tree." Its structu…
An Index of Sociocultural Development Applicable to Precivilized Societies
An Index of Sociocultural Development constructed by principal‐components analysis correlated highly with the logarithm of precivilized societies' scores on Carneiro's Index of Cultural Accumulation, with the results of a Thurstone‐type Latent‐Distance analysis and with the logarithm of the maximum population of residential settlements in societies. It is suggested that the Indices of Sociocultural Development and Cultural Accumulation measure es…
Standardization of an Index of Sociocultural Development for Precivilized Societies 1
By scaling eighteen of the traits previously found to be important indicators of societal development, the author's Index of Sociocultural Development was brought closer to the status of an equal‐interval ratio scale. Its relation to the logarithm of settlement population as a criterion of societal development was thereby linearised and attained a correlation coefficient of 0.969. Its characteristic exponential relationship with Carneiro's Index …
A Dimensional Model of Multilinear Sociocultural Evolution
Thurstone's latent-distance method was used to find the coordinates of fifty-five societies in a three-dimensional space that has level of sociocultural development as its principal axis. By assuming that the most probable evolutionary precursor of any society was of a type represented by the society at a lower level of development that showed the greatest similarity to it, societies were linked to form a branched evolutionary "tree." Its structu…
Further Implications of Cultural Surgency and Sex-Dominance
In the process of standardizing an Index of Sociocultural Development, it was found that male-dominant and equidominant societies differ significantly in their order of acquisition of developmental traits, their cultural elaboration and cultural surgency, the population of their largest settlement and possibly also its population density. These relationships are discussed in terms of the theoretical meaning of sex-dominance and cultural surgency …
Cluster Density Analysis of Dimensional Socio-Cultural Evolution Models
A quantitative method is briefly described whereby societal density contours may be constructed at successive cross-sectional levels of the three-dimensional, branching, socio-cultural evolution models described in American Anthropologist 1969, 71(5): 864-870. Considered with the branching model, these cross-sections help to reveal the underlying evolutionary structure, discounting random variations in the sample or excessively complex branchings…
Indices of Sociocultural Development and Cultural Accumulation
Cameiro's Index of Cultural Accumulation related exponentially to the author's Index of Sociocultural Development. The relationship follows mathematically, as an “exponential cultural growth law,” from the assumption that cultural traits diversify at a constant proportional rate with successive increments of sociocultural development, though the rate may vary from one society to another. This variation is hypothetically dependent upon a factor of…
Three Stages in the Evolution of Slavery in Precivilized Societies
Analysis of a small sample of cross-cultural data suggests that slavery evolves through three stages in precivilized societies. At first, slaves are mainly war captives from other societies and serve primarily to symbolize the dominance of the victor over the vanquished: their economic func tion is minimal. Second, the importance of "dominance slavery" declines as the locus of the dominance struggle shifts to some extent from between to within so…
An Index of Sociocultural Development Applicable to Precivilized Societies
An Index of Sociocultural Development constructed by principal‐components analysis correlated highly with the logarithm of precivilized societies' scores on Carneiro's Index of Cultural Accumulation, with the results of a Thurstone‐type Latent‐Distance analysis and with the logarithm of the maximum population of residential settlements in societies. It is suggested that the Indices of Sociocultural Development and Cultural Accumulation measure es…
Indices of Sociocultural Development and Cultural Accumulation
Cameiro's Index of Cultural Accumulation related exponentially to the author's Index of Sociocultural Development. The relationship follows mathematically, as an “exponential cultural growth law,” from the assumption that cultural traits diversify at a constant proportional rate with successive increments of sociocultural development, though the rate may vary from one society to another. This variation is hypothetically dependent upon a factor of…
A Dimensional Model of Multilinear Sociocultural Evolution
Thurstone's latent-distance method was used to find the coordinates of fifty-five societies in a three-dimensional space that has level of sociocultural development as its principal axis. By assuming that the most probable evolutionary precursor of any society was of a type represented by the society at a lower level of development that showed the greatest similarity to it, societies were linked to form a branched evolutionary "tree." Its structu…
Cluster Density Analysis of Dimensional Socio-Cultural Evolution Models
A quantitative method is briefly described whereby societal density contours may be constructed at successive cross-sectional levels of the three-dimensional, branching, socio-cultural evolution models described in American Anthropologist 1969, 71(5): 864-870. Considered with the branching model, these cross-sections help to reveal the underlying evolutionary structure, discounting random variations in the sample or excessively complex branchings…
Standardization of an Index of Sociocultural Development for Precivilized Societies 1
By scaling eighteen of the traits previously found to be important indicators of societal development, the author's Index of Sociocultural Development was brought closer to the status of an equal‐interval ratio scale. Its relation to the logarithm of settlement population as a criterion of societal development was thereby linearised and attained a correlation coefficient of 0.969. Its characteristic exponential relationship with Carneiro's Index …
Three Stages in the Evolution of Slavery in Precivilized Societies
Analysis of a small sample of cross-cultural data suggests that slavery evolves through three stages in precivilized societies. At first, slaves are mainly war captives from other societies and serve primarily to symbolize the dominance of the victor over the vanquished: their economic func tion is minimal. Second, the importance of "dominance slavery" declines as the locus of the dominance struggle shifts to some extent from between to within so…
Further Implications of Cultural Surgency and Sex-Dominance
In the process of standardizing an Index of Sociocultural Development, it was found that male-dominant and equidominant societies differ significantly in their order of acquisition of developmental traits, their cultural elaboration and cultural surgency, the population of their largest settlement and possibly also its population density. These relationships are discussed in terms of the theoretical meaning of sex-dominance and cultural surgency …
Persisting and Disappearing Traits in the Development of Precivilized Societies
Results of the application of a new method of ordinal scaling to a sample of cross-cultural data are presented. The method distinguishes traits which reach a maximum level of development and then decline (D-type) from those which do not decline after reaching a maximum (P-type). Maledominant and equidominant/female-dominant societies are scaled separately and a number of P-type and D-type traits identified, some of the former having previously be…
Maladministration
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Edgar Bowden; Maladministration : A Thematic Analysis of Nigerian Case Studies in the Context of Administrative Initiative. Human Organization 1 December 1976; 35 (4): 391–394. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.35.4.m426u45954696388 Down…
Cybele and the Axe-Goddess
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