The Alliance software: a kinship database and graphical approach to genealogy

Sugito, Shigenobu

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dc.contributor.author	Sugito, Shigenobu
dc.date.accessioned	2008-10-08
dc.date.available	2008-10-08
dc.date.issued	2008-10-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3569
dc.description	Shigenobu Sugito is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the School of Human Sciences and Graduate School of Human Relations Study at Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan. He has worked with Australian Indigenous people, and conducted ongoing fieldwork in Arnhem Land, since 1984. His current concern is with Indigenous knowledge, information, and social values, especially focusing on the development of software for the kinship database and genealogy for anthropological research: the Alliance Project. His project URL is http://study.hs.sugiyama-u.ac.jp/alliance/ .	en
dc.description.abstract	The kinship database and genealogy software “Alliance” has been funded by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science from 2000 until 2008. The Alliance was originally developed and used as a fieldwork tool in cultural anthropology, but it has moved beyond this function to be utilised for a range of different purposes besides research. The Alliance is user-friendly software, which represents multiple family lines and marital linkages in a single database. Genealogies are graphically displayed in a two-dimensional formation. In my presentation, I would like to show you a recent development of the time-line function and to describe some plans for a web application and three-dimensional expressions. This guest lecture was presented on 11 September 2008.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	anthropology	en
dc.subject	kinship	en
dc.title	The Alliance software: a kinship database and graphical approach to genealogy	en
dc.type	Presentation	en
dc.contributor.department	Graduate School of Human Relations Study, Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya	en