 |


|
 |
Item Details
Title:
|
EXCHANGE IN OCEANIA
A GRAPH THEORETIC ANALYSIS |
By: |
Per Hage, Frank Harary |
Format: |
Hardback |

List price:
|
£125.00 |
Our price: |
£109.38 |
Discount: |
|
You save:
|
£15.62 |
|
|
|
|
ISBN 10: |
0198277601 |
ISBN 13: |
9780198277606 |
Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
Delivery
rates
|
Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 July, 1991 |
Series: |
Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
Pages: |
334 |
Description: |
The authors 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. |
Synopsis: |
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. In this book the authors extend these models and apply them to the analysis of exchange structures in Oceania, presenting graph theory in a form accessible to the non-mathematical reader. 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. |
Illustrations: |
numerous line figures and tables |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |


|

|

|

|

|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.

|

|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.

|

|
|
 |