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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Our founding mother, Elizabeth Bott Spillius, has an article in _The Sociological Review_ 2005 (current issue: vol 53, 4). "Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Concordance." It's part of a festschrift for Ronald Frankenberg. "I started to become an anthroplogist when I was 18, living in Toronto, Canada, when my then boyfriend, Erving Goffman, got me to read Emile Durkheim." p. 658. "'Go away and write a novel', said Max Gluckman when I presented my early findings [about networks and family structure in London] at a seminar at Manchester." p. 661 "Eventually after much painstaking work and sitting hopelessly looking at the data and knowing there should [be] a way of understanding it, an idea floated into my head from nowhere. I had that Archimdes feeling. I remember silently saying ... `I don't know whoyou are or how you thought of that, but thank you very much.'... A particular thrill was that an anthropological colleague (Barnes, 1954) had thought of a very similar idea when analysing a very different social situation, a Norwegian fishing village.... [This became] _Family and Social Network_ (1957)." [Details follow on the ideas of the book, which should be familar to all list members.] (p. 662) "[The book] was finally published in 1957, but to be honest I was already changing direction. I was fratified that the bookhad such a large impact, and that network approaches were taken up both in Britain and abroad. However, even though I did write a long afterword about network methods to the 2nd edition, published in 1971, I only did this so tht I could claim copyright on the book, since the Tavistock had copyright on the first edition. I employed a researcher to do much of the ground work for this afterword, and found it really quite painful to write. My interests had shifted ... [to] psychoanalysis." (p. 663). "When I returned from Tonga, ... I thouht I would be expected to continue working on families, which I did not want to do, and that network research would probably take a new form that I would not enjoy. (I think I was proved right when I read some of the more quantitative studies which began to emerge.)" p. 663. "I have tried to show that although I did not do new anthropological fieldwork after the 1950s, I did not desert anthropologists. Those ideas and exciements have cloured the way I subsequently practiced psychoanalysis." p.670 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.