Ira R. Buchler was professor of anthropology at the University of Texas.
This collection of essays was the first major attempt to apply game theory, linear programming, and graph theory to anthropological data.Contributors: John Atkins; Ira B. Buchler; Albert M. Chammah; Luke Curtis; Walter Goldschmidt; Hans Hoffman; Robert Kozelka; Bernhardt Lieberman; Frank B. Livingstone; R. Michael McKinlay; Anatol Rapoport; Richard F. Salisbury; T. C. Schelling; M. Shubik; and Martin Southwold.