Contributors

Who writes the explainers

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  Ines Valdera

  Ines writes about kinship terminologies and marriage systems. She studied social anthropology, reads ethnographies in Spanish and Portuguese, and believes most arguments about kinship end once someone draws a clear diagram.

  3 explainers
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  Tomasz Wierzba

  Tomasz came to anthropology from graph theory and years of data work. He covers network analysis and the algebra of kinship, and he will happily spend a paragraph on why the order of two relations matters.

  3 explainers
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  Ruth Ashdown

  Ruth is a family historian with an actuary's fondness for tables. She writes the genealogy mathematics: cousins and removes, relatedness, pedigree collapse and how many years a generation really is.

  3 explainers
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  Kwame Asante-Boyd

  Kwame is a programmer who reads evolutionary anthropology for fun. He writes about cultural evolution, simulation and agent-based models, and he likes a model small enough to run on paper.

  3 explainers
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  Leila Farzan

  Leila writes about research methods, statistics and teaching for students meeting these ideas for the first time. Her rule: every method gets a worked example with numbers small enough to check by hand.

  3 explainers