Small, Cathy - In: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 2 (1999) 3, pp. 6-6
A modeled Polynesian society is used to explain why, in Polynesia, growing stratification did not result in a devaluation of women's status, as most theorists would predict. The computer model used to explore this problem--called TongaSim--is a C++ program that attempts to emulate the basic...