"Several of the world's leading anthropologists have drawn upon particular elements of chaos theory for their inspiration, but as yet, there is no focused and comprehensive treatment of the applicability of chaos theory to anthropology's distinctive ethnographic and cross-cultur…
Over the past two decades, "chaos theory" - the perception of order previously hidden in phenomena of apparent randomness and disorder - has fundamentally transformed the natural sciences. In recent years, numerous scholars in the social sciences and humanities have attempted to…
This is the second volume in a series intended to give clear expositions of the applications of the new techniques developed to understand nonlinear phenomena in the life sciences. The first paper by West, Mackey and Chen is methodological in nature and reviews how to distinguis…
