Steve Lansing
Santa Fe Institute, External Professor, Faculty Member
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... Finally, it was the fur traders Re-villon Freres (not the cosmetic company Revlon) who financed Nanook of the North (p. 211). ... a key element of bridewealth) that listeners under-stand to be veiled statements about her own... more
... Finally, it was the fur traders Re-villon Freres (not the cosmetic company Revlon) who financed Nanook of the North (p. 211). ... a key element of bridewealth) that listeners under-stand to be veiled statements about her own experi-ences; (3) Hermanus Rangga Horo, installed as ...
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Research Interests: Management, Sociology, Economics, Hydrology, Environmental Studies, and 15 moreBehavior, Policy, Adaptation, Ecology, Multidisciplinary, Sustainability Science, Institutions, Scale, Framework, Science Technology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Socio-hydrology, Water Systems, Sustainability, and Life Sciences & Biomedicine
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Numerous studies indicate strong associations between languages and genes among human populations at the global scale, but all broader scale genetic and linguistic patterns must arise from processes originating at the community level. We... more
Numerous studies indicate strong associations between languages and genes among human populations at the global scale, but all broader scale genetic and linguistic patterns must arise from processes originating at the community level. We examine linguistic and genetic variation in a contact zone on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, where Neolithic Austronesian farming communities settled and began interacting with aboriginal foraging societies ≈3,500 years ago. Phylogenetic reconstruction based on a 200-word Swadesh list sampled from 29 localities supports the hypothesis that Sumbanese languages derive from a single ancestral Austronesian language. However, the proportion of cognates (words with a common origin) traceable to Proto-Austronesian (PAn) varies among language subgroups distributed across the island. Interestingly, a positive correlation was found between the percentage of Y chromosome lineages that derive from Austronesian (as opposed to aboriginal) ancestors and t...
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Research Interests: History, Genetics, Archaeology, Anthropology, Pacific Island Studies, and 15 moreAustronesian Languages, Southeast Asia, Matrilineality, Structuralism, Social behavior, Austronesian, Social organization, Mitochondrial DNA, Anthropological Archaeology, Austronesian linguistics, Austronesian Prehistory, Social Organization, Social Behavior, Elsevier, and Structural model
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Law, Anthropology, Complex Systems Science, Complexity Theory, and 15 moreComplex Systems, Complexity, Indonesia, Ecology, Complex Adaptive Systems, Irrigation water Management, Humans, Female, Male, Development of complex societies, Critical Transitions, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Genetic variation, Agricultural Irrigation, and Current anthropology
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my research on the water temple networks of Bali, as published in Priests
... James N. Kremer, a systems ecologist, and Lansing developed an eco-logical simulation model to evaluate the effect of the water temples on the pro-ductivity of the rice terraces. ... If no alternative hosts are available, the pest... more
... James N. Kremer, a systems ecologist, and Lansing developed an eco-logical simulation model to evaluate the effect of the water temples on the pro-ductivity of the rice terraces. ... If no alternative hosts are available, the pest popu-lation will drop (Aryawan et al. 1993). ...
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The Austronesian expansion into Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific was the last and most far-reaching prehistoric human migration. Austronesian languages replaced indigenous languages over nearly half the globe, yet the absolute number... more
The Austronesian expansion into Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific was the last and most far-reaching prehistoric human migration. Austronesian languages replaced indigenous languages over nearly half the globe, yet the absolute number of Austronesian ...