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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Hi Jamie, I believe Douglas White's (UC Irvine/Department of Anthropology) work might be something you would want to add to the syllabus. Best, Lindsay On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Amber Wutich <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > Hi Jamie > > Jeff Johnson and Chris McCarty's syllabus is posted on > http://qualquant.org/methodsmall/scrm/network/ > > I only have one week on SN in my grad Ethnographic Field Methods class, > but I use a few things that might be relevant: > > We read Trotter's piece in Schensul & LeCompte's 1999 Ethnogropher's > Toolkit on Mapping Social Networks etc. It is quite accessible. > > Jeff Johnson and David Griffith have a nice new piece in Vaccaro, Smith, > and Aswani's 2010 Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research > Design. > > I always assign Schweizer, T. (1997) Embeddedness of Ethnographic Cases: > A Social Networks Perspective. Current Anthropology. 38 (5): 739-760. > Great, classic stuff. > > Hope that helps - > Amber > > Amber Wutich, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor of Anthropology > School of Human Evolution and Social Change > Arizona State University > http://shesc.asu.edu/wutich > > -----Original Message----- > From: Social Networks Discussion Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of James Holland Jones > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:32 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Anthropology and Social Network Analysis > > ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** > > Hi all, > > I am putting together a new course on social networks for the spring > quarter and was curious to find out if anyone else had ever experimented > with anthropology-heavy approaches to teaching SNA? I would be very > interested in seeing other syllabi for SNA classes taught in an > anthropological context. There are lots of anthropologists (or at least > recovering anthropologists -- you know who you are!) in INSNA but, other > than Alvin Wolfe's fine syllabus, I have not found much online > specifically taking on anthropological approaches to social networks. > > The course that I am designing is fairly heavy on the classic Manchester > social anthropologists (e.g., Barnes, Bott, Mitchell, Nadel) but also > includes quite a bit of work coming out of the ethological tradition > (e.g., Tinbergen, Hinde, Lorenz) -- I am a primatologist by training, > after all. I would love to see what others have done, if anything. > > Thanks in advance... > > Cheers, > Jamie > -- > James Holland Jones > Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology > Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment > Director, Methods of Analysis Program in the Social Sciences > > 450 Serra Mall > Building 50 > Stanford, CA 94305-2034 > > phone: 650-723-4824 > fax: 650-725-0605 > email: [log in to unmask] > url: http://www.stanford.edu/~jhj1 > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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. > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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. > -- Lindsay Young Doctoral Student Northwestern University Communication Studies Media, Technology & Society Program _____________________________________________________________________ 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.