In their previous book, Structural Models in Anthropology, Hage and Haray used graph theory, a branch of pure mathematics, to develop a family of models for the study of social, symbolic, and cognitive relations. With Exchange in Oceania the authors extend these models using ethnographic data from Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia to demonstrate that the language, techniques, and theorems of graph theory provide the essential basis for the description, quantification, simulation, enumeration, and notation of the great variety of exchange forms actually found in Oceanic societies.

Exchange in Oceania: A Graph Theoretic Analysis (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Harary, Frank

Hage, Per

Anthropology

Clarendon Press

Island Networks: Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in Oceania (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 11)

Contrary to common perception and belief, most island societies of the Pacific were not isolated, but were connected to other island societies by relations of kinship and marriage, trade and tribute, language and history. Using network models from graph theory the authors analyze the formation of island empires, dialect groups, economic and political centers; the evolution and devolution of social stratification; and the development of kinship terminologies, marriage systems and descent groups.

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 46)

Hage and Harary present a comprehensive introduction to the use of graph theory in social and cultural anthropology. Using a wide range of empirical examples, the authors illustrate how graph theory can provide a language for expressing in a more exact fashion concepts and notions that can only be imperfectly rendered verbally. They show how graphs, digraphs and networks, together with their associated matrices and duality laws, facilitate the study of such diverse topics as mediation and power in exchange systems, reachability in social networks, efficiency in cognitive schemata, logic in kinship relations, and productivity in subsistence modes. The interaction between graphs and groups provides further means for the analysis of transformations in myths and permutations in symbolic systems. The totality of these structural models aids in the collection as well as the interpretation of field data. The presentation is clear, precise and readily accessible to the nonmathematical reader. It emphasizes the implicit presence of graph theory in much of anthropological thinking.

Contrary to common perception and belief, most island societies of the Pacific were not isolated, but were connected to other island societies by relations of kinship and marriage, trade and tribute, language and history. Using network models from graph theory the authors analyze the formation of island empires, dialect groups, economic and political centers; the evolution and devolution of social stratification; and the development of kinship terminologies, marriage systems and descent groups.

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Exchange in Oceania: A Graph Theoretic Analysis (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Island Networks: Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in Oceania (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 11)

Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 46)

Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 46)

Island Networks: Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in Oceania (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 11)

Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 46)