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Exchange in Oceania: A Graph Theoretic Analysis

Exchange in Oceania: A Graph Theoretic Analysis

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0198277601
ISBN13: 9780198277606
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Oct 10 1991
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
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.

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