Kinship and Complexity

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Fall 2008 Anthro 129 (60230) Breadth Kinship and Complexity T,Th 3:30-4:50 Rm ELH 110 requested

Kinship and Complexity Anthropological and sociological studies of kinship networks in the full range of human societies are considered. along with how networks, and those of kinship and marriage, relate to other socioeconomic and political institutions.WikiSysopWikiSysop 16:41, 8 February 2008 (PST)

Genealogies and networks from anthropological field data

Wikipedia:Kinship (originally drafted by the instructor, D.R.White)

My Wikipedia:Kinship and complexity

Contents 1 Regional Kinships 1.1 China 1.2 Middle East, Islam, and Judaism 1.3 Europe and Christianity 1.4 U.S.A. 1.5 Mesoamerica 1.6 Subsaharan Africa 1.7 1.8 1.9 Australia 2 Comparative Studies 2.1 Kinship and Religion 2.2 Marriage Payments 2.3 Social Class 3 Networks 3.1 Weak ties 3.2 Navigable strong ties 3.3 4 Links

[edit] Regional Kinships

[edit] China

1. Mote, Frederick W. 1971. The Intellectual Foundations of China. Introduction to the basic ideas that underlie traditional Chinese culture focuses on the "Golden Age" (600 B.C.-150 B.C.) of Chinese philosophy.
2. Kynge, James. 2006. China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America.

Coordinating centers and peripheral rebellions (The Mandate of Heavan - not Empires in the expansionist sense)

[edit] Middle East, Islam, and Judaism

1. White, Douglas R., and Michael Houseman. 2002. Navigability of Strong Ties: Small Worlds, Tie Strength and Network Topology. Complexity 8(1):72-81 http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/Complexity/SpecialIssue.htm

[edit] Europe and Christianity

[edit] U.S.A.

[edit] Mesoamerica

1. Michael Schnegg and Douglas R. White. 2008. Getting connected: Networks of kinship and compadrazgo in rural Tlaxcala, Mexico. http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/pub/Getting_connected_Networks_of_kinship_and_compadrazgo_in_rural_Tlaxcala.pdf
2. Kinship and compadrazgo

[edit] Subsaharan Africa

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[edit] Australia

1. Denham, Woodrow W., and Douglas R. White. 2005 Multiple Measures of Alyawarra Kinship. Field Methods 17: 70-101. http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pw/MultiMeas03a.pdf http://fmx.sagepub.com/content/vol17/issue1/
2. White, Douglas R., and Woodrow W. Denham. 2007 The Indigenous Australian Marriage Paradox: Small-World Dynamics on a Continental Scale, (drw and Woodrow W. Denham) Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory. http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/Paradox07b.pdf
3. White, Douglas R. 2006 The Classificatory Kinship Page http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pw/Classificatory.htm
4. White, Douglas R., and Woodrow W. Denham. 2003. Sided with a Twist: Alyawarra Networks, Kinterm and Lifecycle Decision Models http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/Denham/Alyawarra.htm

[edit] Comparative Studies

[edit] Kinship and Religion

Wikipedia:Andrey Korotayev

1. Korotayev, Andrey, and Alexander Kazankov. 2002. Regions Based on Social Structure: A Reconsideration. Current Anthropology 41:668–90.
2. Korotayev, Andrey V. 2003. Unilineal Descent Organization and Deep Christianization: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. Cross-Cultural Research 37(3): 133-157.
3. Korotayev, Andrey V. 2004. World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: A Cross-cultural Perspective. Edwin Mellen Press.

[edit] Marriage Payments

1. Bell, Duran. 2008. Marriage Payments: a fundamental reconsideration. Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 3:2: 20pp.

[edit] Social Class

1. Brudner, Lilyan A., and Douglas R. White. 1997 Class, Property and Structural Endogamy: Visualizing Networked Histories. Theory and Society 25(2):161-208. http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/3/
2. Fitzgerald.
3. Casasola.
4. Alcantara.

[edit] Networks

[edit] Weak ties

1. Strength of weak ties

[edit] Navigable strong ties

1. Navigability of Strong Ties

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[edit] Links

Douglas R. White Selected publications

https://eee.uci.edu