Talk
on the methods of charting social relationships
A talk
on how to investigate the patterns of social relationships through
the use of historical and anthropological materials.
The
lecture was originally given to the Joint Schools Course on Research
Methods, University of Cambridge, for taught M.Phil. Masters students,
recorded here as a talk in January 2005, about 25 minutes long, filmed
and spoken by Alan Macfarlane
Further
reading in relation to 'Charting Social Relations':
Ralph
Josselin and Earls Colne:
Alan Macfarlane,
The Family Life of Ralph Josselin (1970)
Alan Macfarlane, (ed.), The Diary of Ralph Josselin 1616-1683 (1976)
The
Earls Colne Web Site (including Josselin's Diary)
Some
classic modern studies of social networks in England:
W.M.Williams,
A West Country Village, Ashworthy (1963)
W.M.Williams, The Sociology of an English Village, Gosforth (1964)
Michael Young and Peter Wilmott, Family and Kinship in East London
(1964)
Some
classic studies of networks and network theory:
J.Boissevain,
Friends of Friends (1974)
J.A.Barnes, 'Class and Committees in a Norwegian Parish', Human Relations,
vii, no.1 (1954)
G.M.Foster, 'Interpersonal Relations in Peasant Society', Human Organization,
19, no.4 (Winter 1960-1)
A.Mayer, 'The Significance of Quasi-Groups' in M.Banton (ed.), The
Social Anthropology of Complex Societies' (1966)
J.C.Mitchell, 'The Concept and Use of Social Networks' in Mitchell,
J.C. (ed.), Social Networks in Urban Situations, (1969)
Eric Wolf, 'Aspects of Group Relations in a Complex Society', American
Anthropologist, 58 (Dec. 1956)
Anthropological
studies referred to:
Napoleon
Chagnon, Studying the Yanomamo (1974)
Alan Macfarlane, Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs
of Central Nepal (1976)
Methodology
and Sources:
Robert
G.Burgess,(ed.) Fields Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual (1982)
A.L.Epstein, The Craft of Social Anthropology (1967)
Martyn Hammersley and Paul Atkinson, Ethnography: Principles in Practice
(1983)
Alan Macfarlane, Reconstructing Historical Communities (1977)
Alan Macfarlane, A Guide to English Historical Records (1983)
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