This article aims at presenting a methodology for Social Network Analysis (SNA) applied to Egyptology and ancient societies studies, with its benefits and issues. One of the big issues dealing with social relationships in ancient Egypt lies in the use of kinship terminology defining relations outside the family. In that sense, SNA allows researchers to partially set aside links values contrary to traditional genealogical studies, especially for the graphical projection. Thus, biological and social brothers do not have to be distinguished using this method, although this distinction is often impossible to do. It then presents an empirical method developed using this branch of sociology on an Egyptological dataset dating back from the New Kingdom. With the help of centrality measures, SNA enabled attention to be drawn to secondary role characters at the first sight of the hieroglyphic documentation. However, studying such a type of documentation requires a cautious approach, especially regarding the nature and aim of the sources available.

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埃及学中的社交网络分析：好处、方法和限制

本文旨在介绍一种应用于埃及学和古代社会研究的社会网络分析 (SNA) 方法，及其好处和问题。古埃及处理社会关系的一大问题在于使用亲属关系术语来定义家庭以外的关系。从这个意义上说，SNA 允许研究人员部分地搁置与传统系谱研究相反的链接值，特别是对于图形投影。因此，不必使用这种方法来区分亲兄弟和社会兄弟，尽管这种区分通常是不可能的。然后，它提出了一种使用社会学这一分支在新王国时期的埃及学数据集上开发的经验方法。在中心性措施的帮助下，SNA 使人们在第一眼看到象形文字文档时就会注意到次要角色。然而，研究这种类型的文档需要谨慎的方法，尤其是关于可用资源的性质和目的。