***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Anyone see the movie, The Swenkas, playing at the Film Forum in NYC, and probably also in a few other enlightened cities. It's the stroy of competitive male public fashion displays in South Africa. "The men engage in a ritualistic fashion show known as `swankking': dressed to the nines, they compete for cash prices and, sometimes, livestock." NY Times review 9Nov05 Well if you've taken a good Network analysis course with a historical persepctive, you know where I am going. This sound a lot like J Clyde Mitchell's "The Kalala Dance" article of the 1950s. But is it? Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.