Week 4: Social-relational approaches
Class agenda
- Sustainability Game: Web of Life
- Grant discussion: Research Questions and Intellectual Merit
- Lectures
- Reading discussion
Reading
- Ready, E. and Power, E.A., 2018. Why wage earners hunt: food sharing, social structure, and influence in an Arctic mixed economy. Current Anthropology, 59(1), pp.74-97.
- Crabtree, S.A., Bird, D.W. and Bird, R.B., 2019. Subsistence transitions and the simplification of ecological networks in the Western Desert of Australia. Human Ecology, 47, pp.165-177.
- Borgatti, S.P., 2005. Centrality and network flow. Social Networks, 27, pp.55-71.
- Kasper, C. and Mulder, M.B., 2015. Who helps and why? Cooperative networks in Mpimbwe. Current Anthropology, 56(5), pp.701-732.
- Lin, N., 1999. Building a Network Theory of Social Capital.
Recommended
- BBC Nature Bang: Ants and Social Distancing
- Baggio, J.A., BurnSilver, S.B., Arenas, A., Magdanz, J.S., Kofinas, G.P. and De Domenico, M., 2016. Multiplex social ecological network analysis reveals how social changes affect community robustness more than resource depletion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(48), pp.13708-13713.
Assignments due for class discussion
- Research Questions and Intellectual Merit