Foundations For Social and Biological Evolution

A. Iberall, D. Wilkison, D. White
1994,  Physical-Philosophic Publications,
ISBN 0- 9638799-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card #93-90828

“[W]hat could be the most important book in anthropology in fifty
 years,“ writes a reviewer for the International Journal of
 MiddleEast Studies, “begins with an introduction to network
analysis in relation to ethnography, providing a succinct history of
network thinking including very recent developments in various
disciplines about network topology and dynamics.” “In addition to its
contribution to our understanding kinship theory in a quite new way,
this book makes an outstanding contribution by reintroducing
ethnographers to the network perspective.” “The authors point out
that ‘taking a network path to coding and analysis’ in ethnography
leads to the ability to understand the emergence of social structural
phenomena that would otherwise remain unobserved.” “Whether the
reader is interested in kinship, in economics, in politics or history,
this book might be considered must reading.”