TY - BOOK ID - 841680 TI - Structural models in anthropology AU - Hage, Per AU - Harary, Frank PY - 1983 VL - 46 SN - 0521253225 0521273110 0511659849 0511868545 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociological theories KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Structural anthropology KW - Graph theory KW - Ethnology KW - Anthropologie structurale KW - Théorie des graphes KW - Anthropologie sociale et culturelle KW - Mathematics KW - Mathématiques KW - Graph theory. KW - Structural anthropology. KW - Mathematics. KW - Théorie des graphes KW - Mathématiques KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Graphs, Theory of KW - Theory of graphs KW - Combinatorial analysis KW - Topology KW - Anthropology, Structural KW - Extremal problems UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:841680 AB - 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. ER -