Numerical techniques in social anthropology /
Mitchell, J. Clyde(James Clyde),1918-1995.710
Good, Anthony,former owner.StEdNL
Institute for the Study of Human Issues.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Institute for the Study of Human Issues,
c1980.
Papers originally presented at a conference entitled New directions in social anthropology, held in Oxford, Eng., July 9, 1973.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Inscription on front paste-down endpaper: Anthony Good, Edinburgh, May 1983.
Ethnology
Mathematical anthropology