Abstract
Thomas, M., and S. Caillon. 2016. Effects of farmer social status and plant biocultural value on seed circulation networks in Vanuatu. Ecology and Society 21(2):13.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08378-210213
Highlights
Studying how tangible and intangible objects circulate among individuals can help in understanding human social relationships
Ethnobiological inventories, and social network analysis, we investigated how farmer social status and plant biocultural value affect plant circulation
Model specification In this paper, we propose to go further than a simple representation of networks by using probabilistic models called exponential random graph models (ERGMs), which were developed for social network analysis (Snijders et al 2006)
Summary
Studying how tangible and intangible objects circulate among individuals can help in understanding human social relationships. Circulation of socially valued objects, exchanged primarily during ceremonies, has been studied extensively by social anthropologists. Few studies from Oceania have dealt with circulation of subsistence products (Monnerie 2014). This shortcoming must be surmounted because ceremonies cannot be organized without the everyday circulation of nonritualized objects (Monnerie 2012). Analyzing how nonprestigious objects such as food plants circulate in everyday life is necessary to understand better the subsistence choices of farmers as they build up their set of crop plants in deciding how to face environmental and social changes
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