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Island Networks - Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in Oceania (Paperback, Revised)
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Island Networks - Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in Oceania (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
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In their previous book, Exchange in Oceania, anthropologist Per
Hage and mathematician Frank Harary demonstrated that models from
graph theory, a branch of pure mathematics, provide the essential
basis for analyzing the great variety of exchange systems in
Micronesian, Melanesian, and Polynesian societies. In this new book
the authors extend these models and apply them to the analysis of
communication, kinship, and classification structures in the island
societies of Oceania, presenting the relevant topics from graph
theory in a form accessible to the nonmathematical reader. The
research problems include the formation of island empires, the
social basis of dialect groups, the emergence of trade and
political centers, the evolution and devolution of social
stratification, the transformations of marriage and descent
systems, the historical development of kinship terminologies, and
the reconstruction of protosocieties.
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