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Title Numerical techniques in social anthropology / edited by J. Clyde Mitchell
Published Philadelphia : Institute for the Study of Human Issues, [1980]
©1980

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Description 290 pages : graphs ; 24 cm
Series ASA essays in social anthropology ; v. 3
Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. ASA essays in social anthropology ; v. 3
ASA essays in social anthropology ; v. 3
Contents Introduction / J. Clyde Mitchell -- Implications of the sexual division of labor in agriculture / Jack Goody and Joan Buckley -- Social factors in the perception of the causes of disease / Hilary Flegg Mitchell and J. Clyde Mitchell -- Multidimensional scaling applications in anthropology / A. Kimball Romney -- Statistical husbandry : chance, probability, and choice in a reindeer management economy / T. Ingold -- Polygyny as a measure of social differentation in Africa / Paul Spencer -- Trees and stars : graph theory in Southern Mexico / Thomas Crump -- Graph theory and the analysis of multiplex and manifold relationships / G. K. Garbett -- The geometry of confidence : an analysis of the Enga te and Hagen moka, a complex system of ceremonial pig giving in the New Guinea highlands / Michael Thompson
Notes Papers originally presented at a conference entitled New directions in social anthropology, held in Oxford, Eng., July 9, 1973
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Ethnology -- Mathematics -- Congresses.
Ethnology -- Mathematics.
Mathematical anthropology -- Congresses.
Mathematical anthropology.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Mitchell, J. Clyde (James Clyde), 1918-
LC no. 80011082
ISBN 0897270134
0915980932