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Structuralist interpretations of biblical myth
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ISBN: 0521254914 0521274923 9780521274920 9780521254915 Year: 1983 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press


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The future of structuralism.
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ISBN: 3886940144 Year: 1983 Publisher: Göttingen Herodot


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Structural models in anthropology
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ISBN: 0521253225 0521273110 0511659849 0511868545 Year: 1983 Volume: 46 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Abstract

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.

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