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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9978282, "Longitudinal Network Studies and Predictive Social Cohesion Theory." Table of 36 research sites
One of the goals of these projects is to use social network analysis
to model and theorize social and institutional structure, as well as
social change and activity structure, at the level of communities,
populations or groups studied by anthropologists or social and
demographic historians. The comparative and
world-system studies represent the attempt to embed our theoretical
understanding of these longitudinal case studies in the global social
historical network.
A second goal is to make baseline data available for the student training
and collaboration and for future generations of researchers. Current
student collaborations include the longitudinal studies in Tlaxcala
continued by Michael Schnegg (Cologne), in Chuuk, continued by Patricia
Skyhorse (UC Irvine), in Rapanui, continued by Maria Eulogia Santos Colima
(Barcelona), in Guatemala, continued by Silvia Casasola (UC Irvine), in
Tzintzuntzan, continued by Eric Widmer (Geneva), in Norfolk, England, continued
by William Fitzgerald (UC Irvine),
and others.