A new handbook is to be published soon by SAGE titled ‘The SAGE handbook of Social Network Analysis’. It is edited by John Scott and Peter Carrington. A full list of chapters can be read online.
Looking at the scope and contributors, this seems like another future reference-work by largely the same authors that brought us Carrington, Scott & Wasserman eds. 2005. Might just attest of the high institutionalisation (and North-American focus) of SNA. The scope is not limited to methodology though. A number of theoretical chapters are included, possibly as a result of the popularity of the idea of the network as a metaphor.
Some chapters might prove to be of particular interest to archaeologists, anthropologists and historians:
Network Theory: Stephen P Borgatti and Virginie Lopez-Kidwell
Kinship, Class, and Community: Douglas R White
Animal Social Networks: Katherine Faust
Corporate Elites and Intercorporate Networks: William K Carroll and J P Sapinski
Social Movements and Collective Action: Mario Diani
Scientific and Scholarly networks: Howard D White
Cultural Networks: Paul DiMaggio
Qualitative Approaches: Betina Hollstein
Kinship Network Analysis: Klaus Hamberger, Michael Houseman and Douglas R White
Very interesting! Also another book on networks mainly focusing on archaeology is coming out in August 2011:
An Archaeology of Interaction
Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society
by Carl Knappett
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199215454.do
Thanks for the tip Eleftheria! I am very much looking forward to Carl’s book. I believe the proceedings of last year’s symposium he organised titled “NEW APPROACHES IN REGIONAL NETWORK ANALYSIS” will be published sometime soon as well I hope.