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 | | ''Hage and Harary find in graph theory a way of uncovering underlying similarities of structure between kinship structures and other structures of exchange as diverse as the kula ring and the atom of kinship... |
 | | In their previous book, Structural Models in Anthropology, anthropologist Per Hage and mathematician Frank Harary used graph theory, a branch of pure mathematics, to develop a family of models for the study of social, symbolic, and cognitive relations. |
 | | Using ethnographic data from Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, they 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. |
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