Island Networks
Subtitle: Communication, Kinship, and Classification Structures in Oceania (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521033213
Subjects: Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Oceania; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnology--Oceania--Mathematical models; Ethnology--Oceania--Mathematical models Ethno; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General
First sentence: Oceanists have increasingly come to recognize the limitations of the laboratory analogy that treats island societies as isolated experiments in adaptive radiation.