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1. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.

2. Second Edition, London and New York: Routledge, 1989.

3. This argument resonates with others that demonstrate the persistent social utility of overlapping networks of human ties as a rational pattern for coping with the exigencies of modern life. John Tierney argues in “Fanisi's Choice, Science (January-February, 1986) that the strategy of [reproducing] multiple networks underlies the notable lack of success of family planning among those economically hardpressed areas of Kenya where fertility rates remain among the highest in the world.