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Using network visualization and the study of the dynamics of
marriage choices, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems
expands the theory of social practice to show how changes in the
structure of a society's kinship network affect the development of
social cohesion over time. Using the genealogical networks of a
Turkish nomad clan, authors Douglas White and Ulla Johansen explore
how changes in network cohesion are revealed to be indicative of
key processes of social change. This approach alters in fundamental
ways the anthropological concepts of social structure,
organizational dynamics, social cohesion, marriage strategies, as
well as the study of community politics within the dynamics of
ongoing personal interaction.
This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of
kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings
together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with
investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of
Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic
ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange
demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are
related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the
neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This
book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and
exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance
with formal methods, one which leaves behind older
structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.
This collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of
kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings
together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with
investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of
Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic
ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange
demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are
related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the
neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This
book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and
exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance
with formal methods, one which leaves behind older
structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.
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