Some more suggestions David Knoke and James Kuklinski (1982). Network Analysis. Beverly Hills/London/New Dehli: Sage Publications (Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences). Personally, I found the GRADAP manual (500 pages) very useful too. It contains some very clearly written chapters on important network parameters: C.J.A. Sprenger and F.N.Stokman (eds.). 1989. GRADAP - Graph Definition and Analysis Package. Groningen (The Netherlands): iec Progamma. Also useful Per Hage and Frank Harary. 1991. Exchange in Oceania. A Graph Theoretic Analysis. Oxford: Clarendon Press (contains very good introduction to the graph theoretic background, and nice applications to exchange networks in oceania). In German: Schweizer, Thomas (ed). 1990. Netzwerkanalyse: Ethnologische Perspectiven. Berlin: Reimer Verlag (contains a good overview article on the emergence of network analysis, and some empirical applications of network analysis by anthropologists) Franz Urban Pappi (ed). 1987. Methoden der Netzwerkanalyse. Muenchen: Oldenbourg Verlag. Yours Rafael Wittek ICS/Department of Sociology University of Groningen Grote Rozenstraat 31 NL 9712 TG Groningen The Netherlands Tel: 0031-50-3636282 Fax: 0031-50-3636226 Email: [log in to unmask]