Analyse Latticielle D'Un Reseau De Proximite

Abatract. Lattice Analysis of a Proximity Network. Two hundred interviews were done in an industrial nelghborhood of Kigall. Rwanda (Central Africa). by Sylvia Servaes (Cologne) before the current bloody civil war. The Interviews describe: personal possessions, quality of vie in the nelghborhood, and reasons for remaining in the neighborhood or leaving it. Lattice analysis and the computer program GLAD are used to study associations between respondents and possessions, and implications between conjunctions of possessions concerning facilittes, the house and living rooms. Facilities include source of water and lighting. The house involves a description of the living quarters and construction materials employed. Living rooms include the description of possessions that are found there. Quality of life in the neighborhood is analyzed in two way: through the reasons inhabitants give for wanting to stay at Camp Zaire, or on the contrary, their reasons for wanting to leave. In the last part, added details on wanting to stay or leave are given and furnish a description of inhabitants who are not satisfied in general with their situation but all the same want to stay where they are. This analysis reveals the hierarchy and status of possessions. Reasons for wanting to leave the neighborhood show more implications and dependencies than reasons for staying. Reasons for being unsatisfied are rather clearly hierarchical and are nonetheless compatible with wanting to stay. An Interpretation of these descriptive results can help (re)formulate hypotheses and test anthropological models of neighborhood relations.