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Oliver Kortendick:

Knowledge Transmission and Political Communication
The anatomy of a village in North-West Papua New Guinea

Part 3
 Social structure
 

An image of the village's social structure
 

This picture reflects the social relations between all villagers (without any external ties) on the basis of all alter an ego mentioned by one of the name generators. We find a rather large powerful center, a majority of more or less equal people and few marginals (not much difference to any other society, isn't it?). More later...
 



How to cite this and the following documents:

Oliver Kortendick, Knowledge Transmission and Political Communication - The anatomy of a village in North-West Papua New Guinea, http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Sonja/Oliver/Papuafrequencies/deckblatt.htm, Canterbury 1998

Copyright: Oliver Kortendick 1998. You may not use or cite this work without written permission by the author (oliver.kortendick@epost.de).

This research was partially financed by the European Commission/DGVIII.

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