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1: 1.1 Mike’s page 2: 3: <img align="bottom" src="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Images/ealogo9.gif"> 4: <p> 5: Michael D. Fischer is an anthropologist who has worked mainly in the 6: <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/collage.html#Lahore"> 7: Punjab 8: </a> 9: and 10: <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/collage.html#Kalam"> 11: Swat 12: </a> 13: in Pakistan, and the 14: <a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/collage.html#Rarotonga"> 15: Cook Islands</a>. His major interests are in the representation and structure of indigenous knowledge, cultural informatics, and the interrelationships between ideation and the material contexts within which ideation is expressed. 16: <p> 17: Fischer is Professor of Anthropological Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent and is currently Director of the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, the University of Kent at Canterbury. 18: <p> 19: Email address: 20: <b> 21: <a href="mailto:M.D.Fischer@ukc.ac.uk"> 22: M.D.Fischer@ukc.ac.uk 23: </a> 24: </b> 25: <h4> 26: Surface Mail: 27: </h4> 28: <address> 29: Department of Anthropology 30: </address> 31: <address> 32: The University of Kent at Canterbury 33: </address> 34: <address> 35: Canterbury, CT2 7NS 36: </address> 37: <address> 38: United Kingdom 39: </address> 40: <p> 41: <address> 42: Tele: +44 1227 823144/823942 43: </address> 44: <address> 45: FAX : +44 1227 827289 46: </address> 47: <hr> 48: <h3> 49: Michael Denley Fischer 50: </h3> 51: <div> 52: <h3> 53: Degrees. 54: </h3> 55: <ul> 56: <li> 57: B.A.1974, M.A 1980, Ph.D. 1986, University of Texas, Austin, Texas in Anthropology and Linguistics. 58: </li> 59: </ul> 60: </div> 61: <div> 62: <h3> 63: Posts and Positions. 64: </h3> 65: <ul> 66: <li> 67: 2005 - Professor of Anthropological Sciences, University of Kent. 68: </li> 69: <li> 70: 2002 - Reader in Anthropological Sciences, University of Kent. 71: </li> 72: <li> 73: 1993- Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent. 74: </li> 75: <li> 76: 1990- Director, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent. 77: </li> 78: <li> 79: 1985-92 Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent. 80: </li> 81: </ul> 82: </div> 83: <div> 84: <h3> 85: Selected Publications 86: </h3> 87: <ul> 88: <li> 89: 1991 Fischer. M. and A. Finkelstein. A case study in social knowledge representation: arranging a marriage in urban Pakistan, in Qualitative Knowledge and Computing, eds. N Fielding and R Lee. Sage. (with A. Finkelstein) 90: </li> 91: <li> 92: 1994 Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists, ASA Research Methods Series, Routledge. 93: </li> 94: <li> 95: 1994 "Modelling Complexity: Social Knowledge and Social Process". in When History Accelerates: essays on the study of rapid social change ed. C. Hann. 96: </li> 97: <li> 98: 1995 "Computer-assisted Ethnographic Research". in Information Technology in Social Sciences Research, ed. R. Lees, UCL Press. 99: </li> 100: <li> 101: 1997 Fischer, M., O. Kortendick and D. Zeitlyn. The APFT Content Coding System.. CSAC Monographs, Canterbury. 102: </li> 103: <li> 104: 1998 Counting Things and Interpreting Ideas: Anthropological Conventions in the Use of "Hard" Versus "Soft" Models, in Postmodern Applications to Natural Resources Development. ed. M. Fischer, CSAC Monographs, Canterbury. 105: </li> 106: <li> 107: 2000 Fischer, M. and W. Lyon "Model Marriage in Pakistan". Kinship and substance in South Asia. ed. Rao and Boeck. 108: </li> 109: <li> 110: 2002 "Indigenous knowledge and Expert Knowledge in Development". The contribution of indigenous knowledge to economic development, ed. Silatoe and Bicker. Harwood. 111: </li> 112: <li> 113: 2002 "Integrating Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Culture : The "Hard" and the "Soft"`. R. Trappl (ed), Cybernetics and Systems, Vol 1. Vienna. 114: </li> 115: <li> 116: 2002 Classification, Symbolic Representation and Ritual: Information vs meaning in cultural processes R. Trappl (ed), Cybernetics and Systems, Vol 1I. Vienna. 117: </li> 118: <li> 119: 2002 Bharwani, S., M. Fischer and N. Ryan ’Modelling Adaptive Dynamics and Social Knowledge’ R. Trappl (ed), Cybernetics and Systems, Vol 1I. Vienna. 120: </li> 121: <li> 122: 2002 Fischer, M., O. Kortendick and D. Zeitlyn. The CSAC Context Coding System.. CSAC Monographs, Canterbury. 123: </li> 124: <li> 125: 2002 Zeitlyn, D. and M. Fischer `Ritual, ideation and performance: A Case Study of Multimedia in Anthropological Research - the Mambila Nggwun Ritual’ R. Trappl (ed), Cybernetics and Systems, Vol 1. Vienna. 126: </li> 127: <li> 128: 2003 The CSAC Context Coding System. with O Kortendick and D Zeitlyn. CSAC Monographs, Canterbury 129: </li> 130: <li> 131: 2004 ’Integrating Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Culture : The "Hard" and the "Soft"’. Cybernetics and Systems.35:2/3 pp147-162 132: </li> 133: <li> 134: 2004 ’Culture and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Emergent order and the internal regulation of shared symbolic systems’ Cybernetics and Systems Research 2004 135: </li> 136: <li> 137: 2005 Culture and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Emergent Order and the Internal Regulation of Shared Symbolic Systems, Cybernetics and Systems: an International Journal. 36(8), pp. 735-752. 138: </li> 139: <li> 140: 2005 Fischer, M, S. Lyon and D. Read 2005. Introduction (to Cultural Systems issue), Cybernetics and Systems: an International Journal. 36(8), pp. 719-734. 141: </li> 142: <li> 143: 2005 Kinship Algebra Expert System (with Dwight Read). A computer program and documentation for formal modelling of kinship terminologies and the simulation of populations that under these models. http://Kaes.anthrosciences.net. CSAC Monographs, Canterbury. 144: </li> 145: <li> 146: 2006 Configuring Anthropology, Social Science Computing Review. 24(1), pp. 3-14. 147: </li> 148: <li> 149: 2006 Configuring Anthropology (special issue editor), Social Science Computing Review. 24(1). 150: </li> 151: <li> 152: 2006 The ideation and instantiation of arranging marriage within an urban community in Pakistan, 1982?2000. Contemporary South Asia 15(3) pp 325-339. 153: </li> 154: <li> 155: 2006 ?Cultural Agents: A Community of Minds?. Engineering Societies in the Agents World VI. Oguz Dikenelli, Marie-Pierre Gleizes and Alessandro Ricci (eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Sciencee 3963 pp 259-274. (Springer-Verlag) 156: </li> 157: <li> 158: 2006 Lyon, Stephen M. & Fischer, M.D. 2006. Anthropology and displacement: Culture, communication and computers applied to a real world problem. Anthropology in Action 13(3): 40-53. 159: </li> 160: <li> 161: 2008 The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research. in Online Research, (eds) N. Fielding and R. Lee. Sage, London. 162: </li> 163: <li> 164: 2008 Cultural dynamics: formal descriptions of cultural processes. Structure and Dynamics. v3:1. 165: </li> 166: <li> 167: See also http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk 168: </li> 169: </ul> 170: </div> 171: <div> 172: <h3> 173: Grants 174: </h3> 175: I have received grants from the ESRC, AHRB, SERC, MRC, HEFCE, JISC, Leverhulme and Nuffield, on topics including ethnography of Pakistan and the Cook Islands, formal analysis, multi-media databases, coding methods, virtual reality, performance and large scale networked databases, historical anthropology and textual markup 176: </p> 177: </div> 178: 179: [Private]
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