Why do so many people with a name that is half Vietnamese, half foreign, answer questions about Vietnam? Can they represent Vietnamese?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.L. Cu Si
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
Do So

One of the most seminal work on Vietnamese cultural evolution (the study of changes in culture that draws a lot of parallels to Darwinian biological evolution) is Cultural evolution in Vietnam's early 20th century: A Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs , which studied the architecture of multiple buildings of Hanoi’s Old Quarter and plotted them on a graph based on the probabilities that any given building would contain Buddhist, Chinese, and/or French decorations...

scholarly journals Cultural evolution in Vietnam's early 20th century: A Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 100001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Quang-Khiem Bui ◽  
Viet-Phuong La ◽  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Manh-Toan Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Networks Analysis

scholarly journals Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Bui Quang Khiem ◽  
Viet-Phuong La ◽  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Manh-Toan Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Technical Requirement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
Architectural Transformation

The study of cultural evolution has taken on an increasingly interdisciplinary and diverse approach in explicating phenomena of cultural transmission and adoptions. Inspired by this computational movement, this study uses Bayesian networks analysis, combining both the frequentist and the Hamiltonian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach, to investigate the highly representative elements in the cultural evolution of a Vietnamese city’s architecture in the early 20th century. With a focus on the façade design of 68 old houses in Hanoi’s Old Quarter (based on 78 data lines extracted from 248 photos), the study argues that it is plausible to look at the aesthetics, architecture, and designs of the house façade to find traces of cultural evolution in Vietnam, which went through more than six decades of French colonization and centuries of sociocultural influence from China. The in-depth technical analysis, though refuting the presumed model on the probabilistic dependency among the variables, yields several results, the most notable of which is the strong influence of Buddhism over the decorations of the house façade. Particularly, in the top 5 networks with the best Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) scores and p<0.05, the variable for decorations (DC) always has a direct probabilistic dependency on the variable B for Buddhism. The paper then checks the robustness of these models using Hamiltonian MCMC method and find the posterior distributions of the models’ coefficients all satisfy the technical requirement. Finally, this study suggests integrating Bayesian statistics in the social sciences in general and for the study of cultural evolution and architectural transformation in particular.

scholarly journals Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: a Bayesian networks analysis of Franco-Chinese house designs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong ◽  
Bui Quang Khiem ◽  
Viet-Phuong La ◽  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Toan Manh Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Technical Requirement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
Architectural Transformation

The study of cultural evolution has taken on an increasingly interdisciplinary and diverse approach in explicating phenomena of cultural transmission and adoptions. Inspired by this computational movement, this study uses Bayesian networks analysis, combining both the frequentist and the Hamiltonian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach, to investigate the highly representative elements in the cultural evolution of a Vietnamese city’s architecture in the early 20th century. With a focus on the façade design of 68 old houses in Hanoi’s Old Quarter (based on 78 data lines extracted from 248 photos), the study argues that it is plausible to look at the aesthetics, architecture, and designs of the house façade to find traces of cultural evolution in Vietnam, which went through more than six decades of French colonization and centuries of sociocultural influence from China. The in-depth technical analysis, though refuting the presumed model on the probabilistic dependency among the variables, yields several results, the most notable of which is the strong influence of Buddhism over the decorations of the house façade. Particularly, in the top 5 networks with the best Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) scores and p<0.05, the variable for decorations (DC) always has a direct probabilistic dependency on the variable B for Buddhism. The paper then checks the robustness of these models using Hamiltonian MCMC method and find the posterior distributions of the models’ coefficients all satisfy the technical requirement. Finally, this study suggests integrating Bayesian statistics in the social sciences in general and for the study of cultural evolution and architectural transformation in particular.

Challenge of applying ‘subjective interpretation’ with Bayesian network analysis in Art and Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYỄN Minh Hoàng
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
Bayesian Network ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
New Work ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Networks Analysis

Art and Culture are very important aspects of humanity. However, due to their abstract nature, attempts to quantify the value of such fields have been the challenges for the scientific community. Recently, a new work of Vuong et al. (2019) presents an approach that sheds light on the possibility of applying Bayesian networks analysis to clarify the connection between architecture, for example, the design of the house façade and cultural evolution in Vietnamese city in the early 20th century.

Challenge of applying ‘subjective interpretation’ with Bayesian network analysis in Art and Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYỄN Minh Hoàng
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
Bayesian Network ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
New Work ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Networks Analysis

Art and Culture are very important aspects of humanity. However, due to their abstract nature, attempts to quantify the value of such fields have been the challenges for scientific community. Recently, a new work of Vuong et al. (2019) presents an approach that sheds light on the possibility of applying Bayesian networks analysis to clarify the connection between architecture, for example, the design of the house façade and cultural evolution in Vietnamese city in the early 20th century.

scholarly journals Cultural Evolution in Vietnam’s Early 20th Century: A Bayesian Networks Analysis of Franco-Chinese House Designs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Hoang Vuong ◽  
Quang-Khiem Bui ◽  
Viet-Phuong La ◽  
Thu-Trang Vuong ◽  
Manh-Toan Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Networks Analysis

A few thoughts on how abstract aesthetic values can be inspected through the quantitative approach

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Tam Tri
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Networks ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Thoughts on the paper "Cultural evolution in Vietnam's early 20th century: A Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs" (Vuong et al., 2019)

scholarly journals The Challenge and Value of applying ‘subjective interpretation’ with Bayesian network analysis in Arts and Cultures

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
NGUYỄN Minh Hoàng ◽  
Le Tam Tri
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Bayesian Network ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
New Work ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Networks Analysis

Art and Culture are very important aspects of humanity. However, due to their abstract nature, attempts to quantify the value of such fields have been the challenges for the scientific community. Recently, a new work of Vuong et al. (2019) presents an approach that sheds light on the possibility of applying Bayesian networks analysis to clarify the connection between architecture, for example, the design of the house façade and cultural evolution in Vietnamese city in the early 20th century. The data were partly created through the 'subjective interpretation' of the cultural evolution in 68 Vietnamese old houses. The way applying 'subjective interpretation' with Bayesian analysis is challenging, but its value is worth a try.

Writing Genocide

Matatu ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-395
Author(s):  
Heike Becker
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Do So

Abstract In this article I read several recently published novels that attempt to write the early 20th century Namibian experience of colonial war and genocide. Mari Serebrov’s Mama Namibia, Lauri Kubuitsile’s The Scattering and Jaspar Utley’s The Lie of the Land set out to write the genocide and its aftermath. Serebrov and Kubuitsile do so expressly from the perspective of survivors; their main characters are young Herero women who live through war and genocide. This sets Mama Namibia and The Scattering apart from the earlier literature, which—despite an enormous divergence of political and aesthetic outlooks—tended to be written from the perspective of German male protagonists. The Lie of the Land, too, scores new territory in postcolonial literature. I read these recent works of fiction against an oral history-based biography, in which a Namibian author, Uazuvara Katjivena, narrates the story of his grandmother who survived the genocide.

scholarly journals A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading

Synthese ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke Woensdregt ◽  
Chris Cummins ◽  
Kenny Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Computational Model ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Evolution Of Language ◽  
The Right ◽  
Context Simulation ◽  
Innate Ability ◽  
Do So

Abstract Several evolutionary accounts of human social cognition posit that language has co-evolved with the sophisticated mindreading abilities of modern humans. It has also been argued that these mindreading abilities are the product of cultural, rather than biological, evolution. Taken together, these claims suggest that the evolution of language has played an important role in the cultural evolution of human social cognition. Here we present a new computational model which formalises the assumptions that underlie this hypothesis, in order to explore how language and mindreading interact through cultural evolution. This model treats communicative behaviour as an interplay between the context in which communication occurs, an agent’s individual perspective on the world, and the agent’s lexicon. However, each agent’s perspective and lexicon are private mental representations, not directly observable to other agents. Learners are therefore confronted with the task of jointly inferring the lexicon and perspective of their cultural parent, based on their utterances in context. Simulation results show that given these assumptions, an informative lexicon evolves not just under a pressure to be successful at communicating, but also under a pressure for accurate perspective-inference. When such a lexicon evolves, agents become better at inferring others’ perspectives; not because their innate ability to learn about perspectives changes, but because sharing a language (of the right type) with others helps them to do so.

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