Island Networks: Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in OceaniaCambridge University Press, 28. okt 1996 - 296 pages 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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adjacent algorithm Ana'a analysis ancestor Anthropology atolls Austronesian Badu BFST bilateral binary trees Blust canoes Carolines centrality conical clan cross-cousin marriage cycle Dauan defined descent groups digraph distance distinction dominating set eastern edges Epling evolutionary exchange Fakarava Figure Fiji Firth Fulanga Goodenough graph G graph theory Guinea Haddon Hage Harary iroij Iroquois Island Oceania Kambara Komo Lakemba Lamotrek land Lapita lineage linguistic Mabuiag Mailu male marriage marriage alliance Marshall Marshall's Marshallese matrilineal matrix Mawatta median Melanesia Micronesia Milke's Moala Mothe Muralug Murdock's Nagir Namuka Nerlove and Romney's nodes Oceania Oneata Ongea Papua paramount chief path Polynesian Polynesian Society Ralik ramage rank Ratak chain reconstruction relation Sahlins Saibai semilattice seniority sibling classification sibling terminologies sibling terms social organization southern Lau spanning tree stratification structure THEOREM tion Tonga Torres Strait trade network Truk Tuamotuan Tuamotus Tudu types of sibling Wangava western Woleai Yapese