ANTH245 2007-09-24

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Business

• Responses ...

Segue

• Taking Levi-Strauss' references to the computer seriously
• Databases as representative of structure

Colby

• General Inquirer System
• The IBM 7090
  • 32K addressable memory / $3M (in 1960s dollars!)
  • See also this and this.
• Coding methods
• Cultural Grammars

Comparisons

• L-S
• Rappaport
• Bateson

Tobin and the HRAF

The HRAF

• http://pulproxy.princeton.edu/connect
• Murdock's World Atlas

Why the controversy?

• The status of "codes"
• Violence to texts