Network analysis studies in human interaction : proceedings [of] the symposium organized by the Afrika-Studiecentrum at Leiden, 1969

Network analysts assert that our proper concern of study is social organization and not social behavior, The British and Dutch anthropologists in this collection of papers are especially critical of those analyses which correlate the social attributes of aggregates. They are particularly dissatisfied with explanations couched in terms of internalized norms and values. They call instead for analytic attention to be given to concrete structures of transaction and exchange. Network analysis appears in this book as both a set of principles for comprehending social phenomena and as an array of methods for interpreting structural features. FOREWORD Preface Table of contents Part 1. Theory and methodology 1 Social network: Its use as a conceptual framework in family analysis 2 Networks, norms and institutions 3 Network analysis and social theory Some remarks 4 Some applications of the notion of density to network analysis Part 2. Networks compared 5 Network density among urban families 6 Social network and conjugal role in urban Zambia: Towards a reformulation of the Bott hypothesis 7 Two types of partial networks in Burundi 8 An exploration of two first-order zones Part 3. Network and coalitions 9 Coalitions in Sicilian peasant society 10 Politics on the village level 11 Coalitions and network analysis Bibliography Biographical data of authors Subject index

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