Theory and methods in settlement studies

Ruth S. Tringham, ed. Ecology and Agricultural Settlements: An Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspective. Andover, Mass.: ‘Warner Modular Publications, 1973. Unpaginated (ca. vi + 146 pp.). Tables, figures, and notes. (paper).

Ruth S. Tringham, ed. Territoriality and Proxemics: Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence for the Use and Organization of Space. Andover, Mass.: Warner Modular Publications, 1973. Unpaginated (ca. vi + 115 pp.). Tables, figures, and notes. (paper)

Ruth S. Tringham, ed. Urban Settlements: The Process of Urbanization in Archaeological Settlements. Andover, Mass.: Warner Modular Publications, 1973. Unpaginated (ca. vi + 122pp.). Tables, figures, andnotes. (paper).     

Black and white: A problem with adaptations

William J. Hamilton, III. Life's Color Code. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1973. 238 pp. $14.95.     

Power,Energy and Structure

Richard Newbold Adams. Energy and Structure: A Theory of Social Power. Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1975. xviii + 353 pp. Figures, tables, references and index. $15.00 cloth, $4.95 paper.     

In the cause of science

Jane C. Steward and Robert F. Murphy, eds. Evolution and Ecology: Essays in Social Transformation by Julian H. Steward. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. ix +406 pp. Maps, figures, references, biographical notes. $12.95.     

Two AHA Sessions: The Revolutionary Mr. Kuhn and the Evolutionary Mr. Bertalanffy

Abstract

Quantitative methods of content analysis have become established in most subfields of political science, but remain relatively unutilized in studies of political theory, despite the exclusive focus of that subfield on textual sources. This article develops a variation of content analysis—termed usage analysis—and employs it to resolve a standing debate in scholarship on Cicero's political theory regarding the synonymy of the major Latin terms for the state (civitas and res publica). The resulting distinction between these concepts then informs an exposition of Cicero's ideal state not as the Roman Republic itself or the mixed constitution alone, but as a universal, everlasting political society supported by justice, a mixed constitution, and active citizenship.     

OCCUPATION AND ETHNICITY IN FIVE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CITIES: A COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY

Abstract

Literary critics and historians often interpret authors and authors' works as more or less significant, but are reluctant to quantify those works. The interdisciplinary field of creativity studies, however, poses methods of quantifying the eminence of an author's works. This study uses four measures from that field (anthology entries, scholarly citations, entries in books of quotations, and auction sale records) and one measure from the fields of computational linguistics and data mining (ngrams using millions of books digitized by Google) to assess the eminence of John Milton's thirty-one prose works1. For the purpose of this study, Milton's short “A Letter to a Friend Concerning the Ruptures of the Commonwealth” (1659) was not included in the quantitative analysis out of concern with possible conflations and confusions with letters in Milton's Familiar Letters. and their relation to his greater achievement in epic poetry. These measures indicate the singular eminence of Areopagitica, Milton's 1644 tract on the liberty of unlicensed printing.