Exchange in Oceania: A Graph Theoretic Analysis

by Frank Harary and Per Hage

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198277601
• ISBN13: 9780198277606
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.0"