Structural Models in Anthropology

Klappentext Hage and Harary present a comprehensive introduction to the use of graph theory in social and cultural anthropology. Zusammenfassung Structural analysis in the social sciences has an extensive history. Frequently! however! it has been undertaken largely on the basis of intuition and common sense alone. In this book Per Hage and Frank Harary reveal the deeper insights into social and cultural structures that can be obtained through the application of graph theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword J. A. Barnes; Acknowledgements; 1. Graph theory and anthropology; 2. Graphs; 3. Signed graphs; 4. Digraphs; 5. Graphs and matrices; 6. Structural duality; 7. Networks; 8. Graphs and groups; Appendix: axiomatics; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Per Hage, Per Harary Hage, Frank Harary, Hage Per
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.1984
• EAN: 9780521273114
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27311-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Directors in Perspective
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology