Exchange in Oceania - A Graph Theoretic Analysis (Hardcover)

In a previous work, anthropologist Per Hage and mathematician Frank Harary used graph theory, a branch of pure mathematics, to develop a family of models for the study of social, symbolic and cognitive relations. In this new book they extend these models and apply them to the analysis of exchange structures in Oceania, presenting graph theory in a form accessible to the non-mathematical reader. Using ethnographic data from Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, they attempt to demonstrate that the language, techniques and theorums 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. The work is aimed at teachers and postgraduate students of anthropology - in particular social network analysts and Oceanists, sociologists, economists, mathematicians, geographers, philosophers, linguists, historians who focus on this area, and computer scientists.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Release date:	August 1991
First published:	October 1991
Authors:	Per Hage (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology) • Frank Harary (Distinguished Professor of Computer Science)
Dimensions:	223 x 143 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	334
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-827760-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-19-827760-1
Barcode:	9780198277606

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