Contrary to common perception and belief, most island societies of the Pacific were not isolated, but were connected to other island societies by relations of kinship and marriage, trade and tribute, language and history. Using network models from graph theory the authors analyze the formation of island empires, dialect groups, economic and political centers; the evolution and devolution of social stratification; and the development of kinship terminologies, marriage systems and descent groups.
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Oceanists have increasingly come to recognize the limitations of the laboratory analogy that treats island societies as isolated experiments in adaptive radiation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
twin binary tree, bilateral hypothesis, recursive dualism, sibling classification, matrilineal variant, sibling terminologies, asymmetric marriage alliance, voyaging network, recursive complementarity, conical clan, dominant trading community, similarity coefficient matrix, foraging islands, sibling terminology, marriage isolates, perpetual dichotomy, independent dominating set, minimum dominating set, graph theoretic models, cycle rank, rooted graph, betweenness centrality, developmental core, sibling terms, commoner lineages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Torres Strait, Island Oceania, Marshall Islands, Nuclear Micronesia, Normal Hawaiian, New Caledonia, Cape York, Greater Lauan, Caroline Islands, Lau Islands, Mailu Island, Normal Iroquois, East Polynesia, Tongan Empire, Island Oceanic, New Hebrides, Tu'i Tonga, Tuamotu Islands, West Polynesia, Near Oceania, Mothe Wangava, Santa Cruz, Eastern Lapita, Murray Islands New!
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Oceanists have increasingly come to recognize the limitations of the laboratory analogy that treats island societies as isolated experiments in adaptive radiation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
twin binary tree, bilateral hypothesis, recursive dualism, sibling classification, matrilineal variant, sibling terminologies, asymmetric marriage alliance, voyaging network, recursive complementarity, conical clan, dominant trading community, similarity coefficient matrix, foraging islands, sibling terminology, marriage isolates, perpetual dichotomy, independent dominating set, minimum dominating set, graph theoretic models, cycle rank, rooted graph, betweenness centrality, developmental core, sibling terms, commoner lineages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Torres Strait, Island Oceania, Marshall Islands, Nuclear Micronesia, Normal Hawaiian, New Caledonia, Cape York, Greater Lauan, Caroline Islands, Lau Islands, Mailu Island, Normal Iroquois, East Polynesia, Tongan Empire, Island Oceanic, New Hebrides, Tu'i Tonga, Tuamotu Islands, West Polynesia, Near Oceania, Mothe Wangava, Santa Cruz, Eastern Lapita, Murray Islands New!
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- Social Structure by Murdock on 5 pages
- Social Stratification in Polynesia (American Ethnological Society Monographs No 29) by Marshall David Sahlins in Front Matter, page 90, and Back Matter
- Applied Combinatorics by Fred Roberts on page 41, and Back Matter
- Models in Geography: by Richard J. Chorley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Structural Models in Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) by Per Hage in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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