Taro

Description

The Taro Dataset.

Standard Network Analysis

• SNA Report (html | csv)

File Downloads

• taro.xml (DyNetML)
• taro 2.0.xml (DyNetML 2.0)

Background

These data represent the relation of gift-giving (taro exchange) among 22 households in a Papuan village. Hage & Harary (1983) used them to illustrate a graph hamiltonian cycle. Schwimmer points out how these ties function to define the appropriate persons to mediate the act of asking for or receiving assistance among group members.

References

• Hage P. and Harary F. (1983). Structural models in anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Schwimmer E. (1973). Exchange in the social structure of the Orokaiva. New York: St Martins.

History

• Data originally made publicly available in UCINET.