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Kinship Network Analysis

Kinship network analysis treats genealogies as graphs and applies network methods to study how marriage and descent structure a society. Pioneered by Douglas White and Paul Jorion's 1992 P-graph approach, it shifts the unit of analysis from the individual ego-centered family tree to the whole web of couples and parent-child links, making it possible to detect marriage rules, alliance patterns, and the circulation of people between groups that conventional kinship diagrams obscure.

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Kinship Network Analysis (P-Graph Approach)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / anthropology
  • White, D. R., & Jorion, P. (1992). Representing and computing kinship: A new approach. Current Anthropology, 33(4), 454–462. · DOI 10.1086/204097
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See alsoSocial Network Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySocial Network Genealogymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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