Social Networks and Community Features: Identifying Neighborhoods in a World War II Japanese American Incarceration Center

Summary

This is an abstract from the "People and Space: Defining Communities and Neighborhoods with Social Network Analysis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Socially defined neighborhoods develop through frequent face-to-face interactions among residents and their self-identification as neighbors. Archaeological evidence of neighborhoods is usually dependent on artifact frequencies, boundaries, or shared features. This paper explores how effectively communal features act as proxies for social interaction. Network data drawn from historic newspapers published by internees at Amache, a World War II Japanese American Incarceration Center is used to create networks of interaction between residents of a block, generally viewed as a neighborhood. Within a sample of residential areas these interpersonal networks are compared to the frequency of community landscape features to see how well archaeological remains correspond to network data in identifying socially defined neighborhoods archaeologically.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• People and Space: Defining Communities and Neighborhoods with Social Network Analysis

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Abstract Id(s): 32162