Exchange in Oceania

Download or read book Exchange in Oceania written by Per Hage and published by Oxford Studies in Social and C. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.