Woodrow W. Denham

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2005 Multiple Measures of Alyawarra Kinship. (Woodrow W. Denham and drw) Field Methods 17: 70-101. http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pw/MultiMeas03a.pdf http://fmx.sagepub.com/content/vol17/issue1

Douglas R. White and Woodrow W. Denham. 2008 The Indigenous Australian Marriage Paradox: Small-World Dynamics on a Continental Scale, Structure and Dynamics 3(2).5. http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/pub/Paradox07b.pdf REVISED 4/14/2008

Douglas R. White, Vladimir Batagelj, and Andrej Mrvar (1999) developed the Pajek algorithms for kinship analysis.Renderings in SVG (scalable vector graphics) provided visualizations such as this genealogy for W. W. Denham's study of the Alyawarra. Genealogies and networks from anthropological field data

See:

F. Tjon Sie Fat (1983) Circulating connubium and transitive ranking: a second solution to Leachs problem Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 139(1):140-151. Leiden. Tjon Sie Fat (in press) extends the work of Denham, McDaniel, and Atkins .... In this article he uses their work as a model of an age spiral....

Tjon Sie Fat, F. 1983. Age metrics and twisted cylinders: Predictions from a structural model. American Ethnologist 10:583-604. http://www.jstor.org/pss/644271

[edit] Some Australian kinship network models

Here are two successive BWBWBWBWBWBW chains, with nodes as couples, solid lines to a male’s parents, dotted to a female’s parents, and three colors to differentiate the three different generations formed by. The slope of the colored generations reflect a constant average of wives compared to their husbands. What is deceptive here is (1) the SAME male lines are accessed in successive BWBW connections when in fact these may differ, and (2) since these “male lines” are purely classificatory, no MBD≠FZD marriages are implied. http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/pub/kin/Aus3Gen.htm (MBD)

In fig. 2 the marriages are moved over to exclude MBD marriages, and now become MBMBD marriages. Then: (3) there is no need for consanguinal marriages at all. The appearance of a double helix SEEMS to disappear, a figment of imagination. However, these are all WRONG marriages. Three patrlines cannot form a marriage circle, only an even number of patrilines. http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/pub/kin/Aus3GenMBMBD.htm

Fig. 4 shows MBMBD marriages, and patrilines 2,6,10 and 4,8,12 can be folded over on top of one another, giving the appearance of MBD marriages that exist only in a classificatory sense. Now the double helix model reappears, but only for chains of classificatory MBD marriages. http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/pub/kin/Aus3GenMBMBMBD.htm