B L Foster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1433 |
|---|---|
| NOME | B L Foster |
| PRENOMES | B L |
| SOBRENOME | Foster |
| ASSINATURA | FOSTER B L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3444-0576 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 160 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1955 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Challenges of Planning for High-Impact Research
In major universities, research must be seen in many dimensions: the different disciplines, basic vs. applied, incremental vs. transformative, disciplinary or interdisciplinary, single researcher or collaborative, and much more. A fundamental difference that receives increasing attention is the distinction between incremental research vs. transformative research. Incremental research takes existing research results to the next step while transfor…
The Changing World of Higher Education
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian L. Foster; The Changing World of Higher Education: Special Issue of Practicing Anthropology. Practicing Anthropology 1 April 2017; 39 (2): 2–4. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.39.2.2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Ref…
I Love Working for Uncle Sam, Lets Me Know Just Who I Am”
In 2006, twenty-five teams of cultural anthropologists were deployed by the US military as part of the Human Terrain System (HTS). The backlash against the use of academics and the “militarization of culture” was immediate. The American Anthropology Association published a series of works admonishing HTS participants and, in a related move, lifted an almost century-old censure of Franz Boas’s 1919 work, “Scientists as Spies.” Boas’s once-marginal…
General/Theoretical Anthropology
Tracing the Thai Domestic Cycle Through Time
This analysis examines the use of the development concept in the study of the Thai family and household structure. In a Thai farming village near Bangkok, evidence indicates a decline in the stem family form during the period from 1971 to 1980. During this time period, the village experienced several other changes as well, including an increase in the number of residents who commute to jobs outside the village, the development of modern transport…
Brand Congruence in Interpersonal Relations
Previous studies dealing with the notion of brand congruence suffer from questionable methods of group determination, suspect demonstrations of brand congruence effects, and inadequate attention paid to types of social relation. To overcome these shortcomings, the present study uses graph-theoretic social network techniques to examine interpersonal relationships and brand choice behavior in natural environments. The brand choices of individuals i…
Response to Raslear and Keck’s Comment
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 Brian Foster, Geoffrey White; Response to Raslear and Keck's Comment. Human Organization 1 March 1983; 42 (1): 92–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.42.1.u12422730347781w Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib …
Bang Chan
Microdemographic variation and family composition in four thai villages
Ethnic Identity and Perceived Distance between Ethnic Categories
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 Brian Foster, Geoffrey White; Ethnic Identity and Perceived Distance between Ethnic Categories. Human Organization 1 June 1982; 41 (2): 121–130. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.41.2.24xpnu1187574543 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero)…
Applied Anthropology
Network Structure and the Kinship Perspective
Structural kinship analysis in the Radcliffe-Brown tradition shares many important features with much contemporary formal social network analysis in anthropology and other disciplines. Although the kinship studies lack the mathematical formalism of other approaches, substantive results are of a high order. Using Fortes's Tallensi analysis as a representative of these works, the kinship method is formalized and generalized; the results help clarif…
Sonet-1
Formal network studies and the anthropological perspective
Development, Modernization and Comparative Parochialism
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A note on the potential for genuine cross-fertilization between anthropology and mathematics
A graph-theoretic generalization of the clique concept
For at least twenty-five years, the concept of the clique has had a prominent place in sociometric and other kinds of sociological research. Recently, with the advent of large, fast computers and with the growth of interest in graph-theoretic social network studies, research on the definition and investigation of the graph theoretic properties of clique-like structures has grown. In the present paper, several of these formulations are examined, a…
Thai Peasant Social Structure
Domestic Development Cycles as a Link between Population Processes and Other Social Processes
Domestic development cycles are directly related to several basic population processes (e.g., fertility, child spacing, migration) and provide a direct link between these demographic processes and many other processes. Relationships among population processes and stem family development cycles are explored, showing that demographic changes may have greater effects on composition of domestic units than do changes in the residence rules which defin…
Socioeconomic Consequences of Stem Family Composition in a Thai Village
Mon Commerce and the Dynamics of Ethnic Relations
Structural Variability in Stem Family Development Cycles
A computer simulation of stem family development cycles indicates that mean family size and the proportions of stem and nuclear families vary dramatically when residence rules are varied with respect to which child by birth order stays with the parents. When a child's sex is specified and/or different children stay sequentially with the parents, the variability is greatly curtailed. The simulation uses demographic parameters from data on rural Th…
Friendship in Rural Thailand
Continuity and Change in Rural Thai Family Structure
Using a folk model of the traditional Thai family development cycle in conjunction with certain demographic assumptions, one can formulate expectations for a number of characteristics of Thai families. These expectations are then compared with data derived from censuses of contemporary Thai villages. The analysis suggests that the domestic cycle has changed less than might be expected, and that most of the significant changes can be attributed di…
Labor Groups in Thai Rice and Fishing Villages
The paper analyzes technical imperatives and constraints for recruitment and reward of extra-household work groups for commercial rice cultivation and for commercial fishing. On the basis of this analysis, a characterization of these respective kinds of groupings is derived using a modified version of Eric Wolf's scheme for classifying peasant coalitions. This procedure allows direct comparison of the two types of groups and facilitates an explor…
A graph-theoretic generalization of the clique concept
For at least twenty-five years, the concept of the clique has had a prominent place in sociometric and other kinds of sociological research. Recently, with the advent of large, fast computers and with the growth of interest in graph-theoretic social network studies, research on the definition and investigation of the graph theoretic properties of clique-like structures has grown. In the present paper, several of these formulations are examined, a…
Thai Peasant Social Structure
A note on the potential for genuine cross-fertilization between anthropology and mathematics
Ethnicity and Commerce
The widely observed pursuit of commerce by ethnic minorities is usually explained historically or in terms of the content of the traders' culture. An examination of Mon traders in Thailand suggests that the ethnic difference itself is important in (1) freeing traders from constraints of the host society and (2) reducing stress inherent in face-to-face commercial transactions. These observations are subsumed into a concluding hypothesis relating e…
Continuity and Change in Rural Thai Family Structure
Using a folk model of the traditional Thai family development cycle in conjunction with certain demographic assumptions, one can formulate expectations for a number of characteristics of Thai families. These expectations are then compared with data derived from censuses of contemporary Thai villages. The analysis suggests that the domestic cycle has changed less than might be expected, and that most of the significant changes can be attributed di…
Domestic Development Cycles as a Link between Population Processes and Other Social Processes
Domestic development cycles are directly related to several basic population processes (e.g., fertility, child spacing, migration) and provide a direct link between these demographic processes and many other processes. Relationships among population processes and stem family development cycles are explored, showing that demographic changes may have greater effects on composition of domestic units than do changes in the residence rules which defin…
Brand Congruence in Interpersonal Relations
Previous studies dealing with the notion of brand congruence suffer from questionable methods of group determination, suspect demonstrations of brand congruence effects, and inadequate attention paid to types of social relation. To overcome these shortcomings, the present study uses graph-theoretic social network techniques to examine interpersonal relationships and brand choice behavior in natural environments. The brand choices of individuals i…
Network Structure and the Kinship Perspective
Structural kinship analysis in the Radcliffe-Brown tradition shares many important features with much contemporary formal social network analysis in anthropology and other disciplines. Although the kinship studies lack the mathematical formalism of other approaches, substantive results are of a high order. Using Fortes's Tallensi analysis as a representative of these works, the kinship method is formalized and generalized; the results help clarif…
Socioeconomic Consequences of Stem Family Composition in a Thai Village
Ethnic Identity and Perceived Distance between Ethnic Categories
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 Brian Foster, Geoffrey White; Ethnic Identity and Perceived Distance between Ethnic Categories. Human Organization 1 June 1982; 41 (2): 121–130. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.41.2.24xpnu1187574543 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero)…
Development, Modernization and Comparative Parochialism
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Bang Chan
Microdemographic variation and family composition in four thai villages
Mon Commerce and the Dynamics of Ethnic Relations
Labor Groups in Thai Rice and Fishing Villages
The paper analyzes technical imperatives and constraints for recruitment and reward of extra-household work groups for commercial rice cultivation and for commercial fishing. On the basis of this analysis, a characterization of these respective kinds of groupings is derived using a modified version of Eric Wolf's scheme for classifying peasant coalitions. This procedure allows direct comparison of the two types of groups and facilitates an explor…
The Roman De Toute Chevalerie
THE ROMAN DE TOUTE CHEVALERIE: ITS DATE AND AUTHOR Get access BRIAN FOSTER BRIAN FOSTER SOUTHAMPTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume IX, Issue 2, April 1955, Pages 154–158, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/IX.2.154 Published: 01 April 1955
Pascal's Use of Abeêtir
PASCAL'S USE OF ABEÊTIR Get access BRIAN FOSTER BRIAN FOSTER SOUTHAMPTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XVII, Issue 1, January 1963, Pages 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XVII.1.1 Published: 01 January 1963
Pascal's Ab ̊tir
Journal Article PASCAL'S AB ̊TIR: A POSTSCRIPT Get access BRIAN FOSTER BRIAN FOSTER SOUTHAMPTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume XVIII, Issue 3, July 1964, Pages 244–246, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/XVIII.3.244 Published: 01 July 1964
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Ethnicity and Commerce
The widely observed pursuit of commerce by ethnic minorities is usually explained historically or in terms of the content of the traders' culture. An examination of Mon traders in Thailand suggests that the ethnic difference itself is important in (1) freeing traders from constraints of the host society and (2) reducing stress inherent in face-to-face commercial transactions. These observations are subsumed into a concluding hypothesis relating e…
Continuity and Change in Rural Thai Family Structure
Using a folk model of the traditional Thai family development cycle in conjunction with certain demographic assumptions, one can formulate expectations for a number of characteristics of Thai families. These expectations are then compared with data derived from censuses of contemporary Thai villages. The analysis suggests that the domestic cycle has changed less than might be expected, and that most of the significant changes can be attributed di…
Labor Groups in Thai Rice and Fishing Villages
The paper analyzes technical imperatives and constraints for recruitment and reward of extra-household work groups for commercial rice cultivation and for commercial fishing. On the basis of this analysis, a characterization of these respective kinds of groupings is derived using a modified version of Eric Wolf's scheme for classifying peasant coalitions. This procedure allows direct comparison of the two types of groups and facilitates an explor…
Structural Variability in Stem Family Development Cycles
A computer simulation of stem family development cycles indicates that mean family size and the proportions of stem and nuclear families vary dramatically when residence rules are varied with respect to which child by birth order stays with the parents. When a child's sex is specified and/or different children stay sequentially with the parents, the variability is greatly curtailed. The simulation uses demographic parameters from data on rural Th…
Friendship in Rural Thailand
Mon Commerce and the Dynamics of Ethnic Relations
Formal network studies and the anthropological perspective
Development, Modernization and Comparative Parochialism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A note on the potential for genuine cross-fertilization between anthropology and mathematics
A graph-theoretic generalization of the clique concept
For at least twenty-five years, the concept of the clique has had a prominent place in sociometric and other kinds of sociological research. Recently, with the advent of large, fast computers and with the growth of interest in graph-theoretic social network studies, research on the definition and investigation of the graph theoretic properties of clique-like structures has grown. In the present paper, several of these formulations are examined, a…
Thai Peasant Social Structure
Domestic Development Cycles as a Link between Population Processes and Other Social Processes
Domestic development cycles are directly related to several basic population processes (e.g., fertility, child spacing, migration) and provide a direct link between these demographic processes and many other processes. Relationships among population processes and stem family development cycles are explored, showing that demographic changes may have greater effects on composition of domestic units than do changes in the residence rules which defin…
Socioeconomic Consequences of Stem Family Composition in a Thai Village
Sonet-1
Applied Anthropology
Network Structure and the Kinship Perspective
Structural kinship analysis in the Radcliffe-Brown tradition shares many important features with much contemporary formal social network analysis in anthropology and other disciplines. Although the kinship studies lack the mathematical formalism of other approaches, substantive results are of a high order. Using Fortes's Tallensi analysis as a representative of these works, the kinship method is formalized and generalized; the results help clarif…
Microdemographic variation and family composition in four thai villages
Ethnic Identity and Perceived Distance between Ethnic Categories
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 Brian Foster, Geoffrey White; Ethnic Identity and Perceived Distance between Ethnic Categories. Human Organization 1 June 1982; 41 (2): 121–130. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.41.2.24xpnu1187574543 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero)…
Response to Raslear and Keck’s Comment
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 Brian Foster, Geoffrey White; Response to Raslear and Keck's Comment. Human Organization 1 March 1983; 42 (1): 92–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.42.1.u12422730347781w Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib …
Bang Chan
Brand Congruence in Interpersonal Relations
Previous studies dealing with the notion of brand congruence suffer from questionable methods of group determination, suspect demonstrations of brand congruence effects, and inadequate attention paid to types of social relation. To overcome these shortcomings, the present study uses graph-theoretic social network techniques to examine interpersonal relationships and brand choice behavior in natural environments. The brand choices of individuals i…
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