Collaborative Long-Term Ethnography and Longitudinal Social Analysis of a Nomadic Clan In Southeaste...

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" Collaborative Long-Term Ethnography and Longitudinal Social Analysis of a Nomadic Clan In Southeastern Turkey "
Johansen, UllaWhite, Douglas R

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	900518
Doc. No	:	LA4vw878sn
Title & Author	:	Collaborative Long-Term Ethnography and Longitudinal Social Analysis of a Nomadic Clan In Southeastern Turkey [Article]\ Johansen, UllaWhite, Douglas R
Date	:	2006
Title of Periodical	:	UC Irvine
Abstract	:	Longitudinal network analysis is coupled in this study to a systematic analysis of the results of long-term ethnography of a nomadic group. Data collection using genealogical, interview and observational methods is complemented by analytic methods using graph theoretic concepts and dynamical as well as structural methods to assess various cross-cutting and hierarchical levels of social cohesion (nuclear and extended families, lineages, clans, tribal groups, and village or nationality affiliations as found within the nomad group) to formulate and test hypotheses about social mobility and political leadership. Predictive hypotheses about the inverse relation between out-mobility and social cohesion versus the direct relation between cultural transmission and marital relinking as a form of cohesion are thought to validate the basic approach. The model of distributed cohesion developed from these data provides a new understanding of processes supporting the emergence of leaders in egalitarian nomadic groups.