Exchange in Oceania: A Graph Theoretic Analysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198277606)

In their previous book, Structural Models in Anthropology, Hage and Haray used graph theory, a branch of pure mathematics, to develop a family of models for the study of social, symbolic, and cognitive relations. With Exchange in Oceania the authors extend these models using ethnographic data from Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia to demonstrate that the language, techniques, and theorems of graph theory provide the essential basis for the description, quantification, simulation, enumeration, and notation of the great variety of exchange forms actually found in Oceanic societies.

Author: Per Hage
ISBN-10: 0198277601
ISBN-13: 9780198277606
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 10/10/1991
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.78w x 1.01d