[PC-06] From Similarity to Affinity
Substituting Hayashi's Quantification Method III with Cultural Phylogenetics
Keywords:cultural phylogenetics, phylogenetic network, Hayashi's quantification method III
Cultural phylogenetics is one of the approaches in cultural evolutionary studies and is widely used to study often tangled phylogenetic relationships between cultural traits such as transcriptions. Design study researchers often use correspondence analysis to reduce dimensions of design products’ characters described by binary categories, and subsequently group them by cluster analysis. This approach is problematic from evolutionary perspective. Here we perform phylogenetic network analysis on 61 Victorinox-related Swiss Army Knife models, consisting of 55 contemporary models, five historical models, and one original 1891 Swiss army model which did not originate from Victorinox.