Network Analysis: A Reappraisal

by JEREMY BOISSEVAIN Department of European-Mediterrantean Studies, University of Amsterdam, Sarphatistraat 106A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 3 iv 78 Since the network revival in anthropology in the late 1960s (Barnes 1968, 1969; Boissevain 1968; Mitchell 1969), there has been ever increasing interest in the field. There have been at least a dozen conferences and symposia, a flood of articles and discussion papers by anthropologists, ociologists, and political scientists, a computerized bibliography with almost 1,000 entries (Freeman 1975), the collection and consolidation of computer programmes, and, to crown this interdisciplinary activity, the establishment of the International Network for Social Network Analysis and the journal Social Networks. How is the enthusiasm for network analysis to be explained? Barnes (1954) and Bott (1957) planted the concepts in the mid-1950s, but they only sprouted into substantial growth 15 years later and now threaten to become an impenetrable jungle.

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