Resilience of UK infrastructure
(2010)
Journal Article
Outputs (24)
Review of Oak Park Stories (directed by Jay Ruby) (2009)
Journal Article
Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic (2014)
Book
Why people kill themselves remains an enduring and unanswered question. With a focus on Sri Lanka, a country that for several decades has reported ‘epidemic’ levels of suicidal behaviour, this book develops a unique perspective linking the causes and... Read More about Suicide in Sri Lanka: The anthropology of an epidemic.
Order and anarchy: civil society, social disorder and war (2006)
Book
Argues against the view that the Capitalist market economy is uniquely conducive to the creation of civil society. Shows that Locke and Ferguson identified civil society with social co-operation based on rational self- interest in all human societies... Read More about Order and anarchy: civil society, social disorder and war.
An anthropological analysis of local politics and patronage in a Pakistani village (2004)
Book
Asymmetrical power relationships are found throughout Pakistan’s Punjabi and Pukhtun communities. These relationships must be examined as manifestations of cultural continuity rather than as separate structures. The various cultures of Pakistan displ... Read More about An anthropological analysis of local politics and patronage in a Pakistani village.
An introduction to theory in anthropology. (1997)
Book
Evolution of Sleep: Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives. (2009)
Book
Research during the past two decades has produced major advances in understanding sleep within particular species. Simultaneously, molecular advances have made it possible to generate phylogenetic trees, while new analytical methods provide the tools... Read More about Evolution of Sleep: Phylogenetic and Functional Perspectives..
Conceptual Models of Nature in Pakistan (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Going Around Again: Modelling Standing Ovations with a Flexible Agent-based Simulation Framework (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
We describe how we have used the CoSMoS process to trans- form a computer simulation originally developed for the simulation of plant development for use in modelling aspects of audience behaviour. An existing agent-based simulator is re-factored to... Read More about Going Around Again: Modelling Standing Ovations with a Flexible Agent-based Simulation Framework.
Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511 (2023)
Journal Article
This case study contributes to recent attempts to apply “phylomemetic” methods derived from computational biology to oral traditions, where the aim is to trace the mutation and diversification of folk narratives as they get passed on from generation... Read More about Cinderella’s Family Tree. A Phylomemetic Case Study of ATU 510/511.
Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies (2023)
Journal Article
Recent decades have seen a rapid acceleration in global participation in formal education, due to worldwide initiatives aimed to provide school access to all children. Research in high income countries has shown that school quality indicators have a... Read More about Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies.
Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates (2023)
Journal Article
Vocalizations differ substantially between the sexes in many primates, and low-frequency male vocalizations may be favored by sexual selection because they intimidate rivals and/or attract mates. Sexual dimorphism in fundamental frequency may be more... Read More about Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates.
Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use (2005)
Preprint / Working Paper
The evolution of a cultural trait may be affected by niche construction, or changes in the selective environment of that trait due to the inheritance of other cultural traits that make up a cultural background. This study investigates the evolution o... Read More about Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: a model of education and social transmission of contraceptive use.
Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates (2023)
Journal Article
Species’ life histories determine population demographics and thus the probability that introduced populations establish and spread. Life histories also influence which species are most likely to be introduced, but how such ‘introduction biases’ aris... Read More about Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates.