Research Group Member Profile

Dr Stephen M. Lyon - all publications

Articles: review

• Lyon, Stephen M. (2009). Review of Oak Park Stories (directed by Jay Ruby). Visual Anthropology Review 25(1): 85-86.

Books: authored

• Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). An anthropological analysis of local politics and patronage in a Pakistani village. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.

Books: edited

• Bolognani, Marta & Lyon, Stephen M. (2011). Pakistan and its Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Approaches. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lyon, Stephen M. & Edgar, Iain R. (2010). Shaping a Nation: An Examination of Education in Pakistan. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

Books: reviews

• Lyon, Stephen M. (2011). Review of Language, Space, and Social Relationships: A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia by Giovanni Bennardo. History and Anthropology 22(1): 131-134.

Conference papers

• Stephen M. Lyon (2012), Conceptual Models of Nature in Pakistan, in Giovanni Bennardo eds, ESE Working Papers 1: Cultural Models of Nature and the Environment: Self, Space, and Causality. DeKalb, Illinois, Institute for the Study of the Environment, sustainability, and Energy, Northern Illinois University, 29-34.

Edited works: conference proceedings

• Lyon, Stephen M., Sillitoe, Paul. & Wilson, Robin. (2005). Implementation of e-science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction. First International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, NCeSS.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2002). Modelling competing contextual rules conflict resolution in Punjab, Pakistan. 16th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austrian Society for Cybernetics Studies.

Edited works: contributions

• Lyon, Stephen M. - Contributing Editor (2008). Section News for Society for Anthropological Sciences. In Anthropology News. American Anthropological Association.
• Fischer, Michael D. & Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). George Peter Murdock. In Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Vered Amit London: Routledge. 367-369.

Edited works: journals

• Bolognani, Marta & Lyon, Stephen (2006). Special Issue: Celebrating 20 years of the Lake District Pakistan Workshop. Contemporary South Asia, 15 (3): Taylor and Francis.
• Fischer, M.D., Read, D. & Lyon, S.M. (2005). Special Issue on Cultural Systems. Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal, 36 (8).

Essays in edited volumes

• Bolognani, Marta & Lyon, Stephen M. (2011). Being Pakistani Beyond Europe and South Asia. In Pakistan and its Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Bolognani, Marta & Lyon, Stephen M. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
• Lyon, Stephen M. & Bolognani, Marta (2011). Reflections and representations: Shifting gazes and the curse of truths. In Pakistan and its Diaspora: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Bolognani, Marta & Lyon, Stephen M. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2010). Putting social engineering on the back burner teaching priorities in formal education in rural Punjab, Pakistan. In Shaping a Nation: An Examination of Education in Pakistan. Lyon, Stephen M. & Edgar, Iain R. Karachi: Oxford University Press.
• Lyon, Stephen M. & Edgar, Iain R. (2010). Society, Culture and Politics: Examining Education in Pakistan. In Shaping a Nation: An Examination of Education in Pakistan. Lyon, Stephen M. & Edgar, Iain R. Karachi: Oxford University Press. 1-15.
• Fischer, Michael, Lyon, Stephen & Zeitlyn, David (2008). The Internet and the Future of Social Science Research. In The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods. Fielding, Nigel, Lee, Raymond M. & Blank, Grant London: SAGE Publications. 519-536.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2005). In the Shadow of September 11th: Multiculturalism and Identity Politics. In Muslim Britain: Communities Under Pressure. Abbas, Tahir London: Zed.

Journal papers: academic

• Fischer, Michael D., Lyon, Stephen M., Sosna, Daniel & Henig, David (2013). Harmonizing Diversity: Tuning Anthropological Research to Complexity. Social Science Computer Review 31(1): 3-15.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2013). Networks and Kinship: Formal Models of Alliance, Descent and Inheritance in a Pakistani Punjabi Village. Social Science Computer Review 31(1): 45-55.
• Zeitlyn, David & Lyon, Stephen M. (2012). Varieties of openness and types of digital anthropology. Durham Anthropology Journal 18(2): 97-110.
• Ruiter, Jan de, Weston, Gavin & Lyon, Stephen M. (2011). Dunbar’s Number: Group Size and Brain Physiology in Humans Re-Examined. American Anthropologist 113(4): 557-568.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2010). Genealogy, kinship and knowledge: A cautionary note about causation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33(5): 394.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2010). Motivation and Justification from Dreams: Muslim decision making strategies in Punjab, Pakistan. History and Anthropology 21(3): 263-276.
• Lyon, Stephen M. & Fischer, M.D. (2006). Anthropology and displacement: Culture, communication and computers applied to a real world problem. Anthropology in Action 13(3): 40-53.
• Bolognani, M. & Lyon, Stephen M. (2006). Celebrating 20 years of the Lake District Pakistan Workshop. (in Special Issue on the Pakistan Studies Group, edited by M. Bolognani and S.M. Lyon). Contemporary South Asia 15(3): 255-262.
• Lyon, Stephen M. & Magliveras, Simeon S. (2006). Kinship, Computing and Anthropology. Social Science Computer Review 24(1): 30-42.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2005). Culture and Information: An Anthropological Examination of Communication in Cultural Domains in Pakistan. Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 36(8): 917-929.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2005). Culture and information: An anthropological examination of communication in cultural domains in Pakistan. Cybernetics and Systems 36(8): 919-932.
• Fischer, Michael D., Read, Dwight & Lyon, Stephen M. (2005). Introduction (to Special Issue on Cultural Systems, edited by M.D. Fischer, D. Read and S.M. Lyon). Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal 36(8): 719-734.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). 'Indirect' symbolic violence and rivalry between equals in rural Punjab, Pakistan. Durham anthropology journal 12(1): 37-50.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). Modeling Context in Punjabi Conflict Resolution: Social Organizations as Context Agents. Cybernetics and Systems 35(2-3): 193-210.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2004). Putting social engineering on the back burner teaching priorities in formal education in rural Punjab, Pakistan. Anthropology in action journal for applied anthropology in policy and practice 11(1): 35-44.
• Lyon, Stephen M., David Zeitlyn & Michael D. Fischer (2002). Finding the 'good stuff' on the web: a review of SOSIG. Anthropology Today 18(3): 27.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2002). Local arbitration and conflict deferment in Punjab, Pakistan. Anthropologie 40(1): 59-71.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (2000). ''Open' Doctoral Research: Work-in-Progress'. iNtergraph: journal of dialogic anthropology 1(1).
• Lyon, Stephen M. (1999). 'Open' Ethnography and the Internet in the Field: Increased Communications, Feedback, and �Usability� Versus Technical and Ethical Issues. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 30(1): 51-66.

Other media: research

• Gilberthorpe, Emma., Fischer, Michael. & Lyon, Stephen. (2009). From the Horse's Mouth: Perceptions of Development from Papua New Guinea:A Resource for Teaching Development in Anthropology.
• Lyon, Stephen M. (1999). Social Organisation, Economy and Development. Experience Rich Anthropology

Theses: PhD

• Lyon, Stephen M. (2002). Power and patronage in Pakistan. Department of Anthropology. Canterbury, University of Kent. PhD: 262.