new_guinea_tribes — New Guinea Highlands tribes (1954)
- Description
A signed network of political alliances and enmities among 16 tribes of the Gahuku–Gama alliance structure of the Eastern Central Highlands of New Guinea, from the ethnography of Read (1954). Hage and Harary (1983) used it to illustrate a clusterable signed graph: the alliance structure comprises three tribal groups, and, unlike in a balanced structure, the enemy of an enemy can be either a friend or an enemy. The data are from the UCINET IV datasets collection (file
gama.dat), as distributed in Vladimir Batagelj's Pajek data repository, where the signed graph is split into two symmetric binary matrices, GAMAPOS for the alliance ("rova") relation and GAMANEG for the antagonistic ("hina") relation.Nodes are tribes, and an undirected edge represents either an alliance or an enmity between two tribes (no pair is connected by both).
The network has the following properties:
- Nodes:
name, the abbreviated tribe name. - Edges:
sign, $+1$ for alliance ("rova", GAMAPOS) and $-1$ for enmity ("hina", GAMANEG).
- Nodes:
- Tags
- Social Offline Signed
- Citation
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- K. E. Read, "Cultures of the central highlands, New Guinea." Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 10(1), 1-43 (1954) 10.1086/soutjanth.10.1.3629074 Sci-Hub
- Upstream URL OK
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110610030242/http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/UciNet/UciData.htm#gama
- Networks
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Column legend
- $\left<k\right>$
- Mean degree
- $\sigma_k$
- Standard deviation of the degrees
- $\lambda_h$
- Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
- $\tau$
- Random walk mixing time
- $r$
- Degree assortativity
- $c$
- Global clustering coefficient
- $\oslash$
- (Pseudo-) diameter
- $S$
- Relative size of the largest component
- NPs
- Node properties
- EPs
- Edge properties
- Ridiculograms*
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