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, ...
Read More
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.
Read Less
Milton Under Wychwood,
OXFORDSHIRE,
UNITED KINGDOM
$28.00
$43.99
Add this copy of Structural Models in Anthropology to cart. $28.00, good condition, Sold by Greensleeves Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Under Wychwood, OXFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Structural Models in Anthropology to cart. $41.97, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 1984 by Cambridge University Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Unspecified. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology . Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
Add this copy of Structural Models in Anthropology to cart. $55.73, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1984 by Cambridge University Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. Trade paperback (US). 220 p. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology . Worked examples or Exercises. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
Add this copy of Structural Models in Anthropology to cart. $63.28, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1984 by Cambridge University Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. Trade paperback (US). Contains: Unspecified. Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology . Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
Add this copy of Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in to cart. $72.33, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Cambridge University Press.
Add this copy of Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in to cart. $125.82, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Cambridge University Press.
