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Hierarchical Opposition
Author(s) -
Hage Per,
Harary Frank,
Milicic Bojka
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1834-4461
pISSN - 0029-8077
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1995.tb02520.x
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , epistemology , mathematics , political science , philosophy , law , politics
The purpose of this paper is to give a simple, clear and precise graph theoretic characterization of Dumont's controversial and ambiguous concept of hierarchical opposition. The analysis has special importance for Austronesianists who have independently discovered and applied the concept of hierarchical opposition on several different occasions.