Kinship Network Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID20074061
AuthorsKlaus Hamberger (Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale), M Houseman (0000-0002-3924-8893, Institut des Mondes Africains), Douglas R White (0000-0001-5872-3963)
Year2014
Pages533-549
Publication date2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Sage Handbook Of Social Network Analysis (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSAGE Publications Ltd (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4135/9781446294413.n35
OpenAlexW2287948893
ISBN9781446294413
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited10

Kinship, like language, is a structure, not a sub-stance.1 The distinctive features of kinship networks reside less in how their constitutive ties – be they biological, jural, ritual, symbolic, or whatever – are defined and established than in the way these ties are organized. Kinship network theory is thus not just another “application ” of general network theoretic methods to a particular social domain but a specific branch of social network theory in itself, defined by its own axioms and described by its own theorems. Kinship networks are characterized by the interplay of three fundamental principles: filia-tion, marriage, and gender. We ordinarily repre-sent filiation by a set of arcs (descent arcs) that are

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