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  • Week 1: Introduction
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 2: Behavioral Observation
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
      • Assignment
  • Week 3: Research Design 1
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
      • Recommended Reading
    • Assignments
  • Week 4: Research Design 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 5: Social Network Analysis
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 6: Structured Data Collection
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignments
  • Week 7: Cognitive Anth 1
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 8: Research Proposal Reviews
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 9: Spatial Analysis 1
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 10: Spatial Analysis 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 11: Text Analysis 1
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 12: Text analysis 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
    • Assignment
  • Week 13: Cognitive Anth 2
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading
  • Week 14: Presentations
    • Monday agenda
    • Wednesday agenda
    • Reading

ANTH475/675: Field Skills in Ecological Anthropology

Week 5: Social Network Analysis

Monday agenda

  • Lecture: Social Network Analysis

Wednesday agenda

  • R Tutorial: Social Network Analysis in R

Reading

  • Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology: Social Network Analysis - Christopher McCarty and José Luis Molina (pg. 631-657)
  • Borgatti, S. P., Mehra, A., Brass, D. J., & Labianca, G. (2009). Network Analysis in the Social Sciences. Science 323:892–896.
  • Prell, C. and Schaefer, D. 2024. Introducing Social Network Analysis. In: The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis. John McLevey, John Scott and Peter J. Carrington Editors, 2nd edn, 55 City Road: Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Yalu, A. and Matous, P., 2024. Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia. Ecology and Society, 29(2).
  • Angst, M., Widmer, A., Fischer, M. and Ingold, K., 2018. Connectors and coordinators in natural resource governance. Ecology and Society, 23(2).
  • Crona, B. and Bodin, Ö., 2006. What you know is who you know? Communication patterns among resource users as a prerequisite for co-management. Ecology and Society, 11(2).