Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems

Douglas White is Professor of Anthropology and Social Networks at the University of California, Irvine. Ulla Johansen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cologne, Germany.

This book presents a brilliant example of the application of network analysis to kinship. . . .The applied value of this study cannot be overestimated because kin structures still play important social (and sometimes political) roles in many societies. . . .This pioneering study establishes methodology that will be in demand in anthropology, political science, economics, legal studies, and Middle Eastern studies.

• 1 Introduction:Networks, Ethnography and EmergenceChapter 2 Problems of AnalysisChapter 3 Ethnographic Setting4 Theories, Rules and ExceptionsChapter 5 Network Models and Complexity: Measures, Graphs, and ContextChapter 6 Clan Structures and DynamicsChapter 7 Marriage, Rank and Migration: Fractality in Social StructureChapter 8 Demography, Structure, and Social ChangeChapter 9 Decentralized Leadership and Network CohesionChapter 10 Graphic Approaches to Nomad Solidarity: The Endoconical ClanChapter 11 Conclusions