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      • Per Hage, University of Utah, Frank Harary, New Mexico State University and the University of Michigan
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 August 2010
      28 October 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511759130
      9780521552325
      9780521033213
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511759130
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.477kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Anthropology, Sociology, Anthropological Theory
      Series:
      Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (11)
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    Social Theory, Anthropology, Sociology, Anthropological Theory
    Series:
    Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (11)
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    Contrary to common perception and belief, most island societies of the Pacific were not isolated, but were connected to other island societies by relations of kinship and marriage, trade and tribute, language and history. Using network models from graph theory, the authors analyse the formation of island empires, the social basis of dialect groups, the emergence of economic and political centres, the evolution and devolution of social stratification and the evolution of kinship terminologies, marriage systems and descent groups from common historical prototypes. The book is at once a unique and important contribution to Oceania studies, anthropology and social network analysis.

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    "This unique and important work makes fascinating reading and should have a wide audience among both graph theorists and social scientists...and will undoubtedly have a great deal of influence in the further development of analytic methods in social science." Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics

    "...highly useful to all specialists in Pacific Island anthropology as well as to those with a special methodological interest in network analysis and mathematical models." A. Arno, Choice

    "Their approach is particularly valuable to the study of communication in Pacific Island societies and regional systems from a process-oriented perspective..." A.Arno, Choice

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