Socioeconomic aspects of human behavioral ecology

As a field, anthropology brings an explicit evolutionary approach to the study of human behavior. Each of anthropology's four main subfields - sociocultural, biological, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology - acknowledges that Homo sapiens has a long evolutionary history that must be acknow...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Alvard, Michael S.
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2004.
Σειρά:Research in economic anthropology ; v. 23.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction / Michael Alvard
  • Large-scale cooperation among Sungusungu vigilantes of Tanzania : conceptualizing micro-economic and institutional approaches / Brian Paciotti, Craig Hadley
  • Do women really need marital partners for support of their reproductive success? The case of the matrilineal Khasi of N. E. India / Donna L. Leonetti, Dilip C. Nath, Natabar S. Hemam, Dawn B. Neill
  • The behavioral ecology of female genital cutting in northern Ghana / Letitia L. Reason
  • Why do foragers share and sharers forage? Explorations of social dimensions of foraging / Michael Gurven, Kim Hill, Felipe Jakugi
  • Height, marriage and reproductive success in Gambian women / Rebecca Sear, Nadine Allal, Ruth Mace
  • Good Lamalera whale hunters accrue reproductive benefits / Michael S. Alvard, Allen Gillespie
  • Burden transport : when, how and how much? / Patricia Ann Kramer
  • Risk perception and resource security for female agricultural workers / Karen Snyder
  • Maternal nutrition and sex ratio at birth in Ethiopia / Ruth Mace, Jennifer Eardley
  • Embodied capital and heritable wealth in complex cultures : a class-based analysis of parental investment in urban south India / Mary K. Shenk
  • Reconsidering the cost of childbearing : the timing of childrens helping behavior across the life cycle of Maya families / Karen L. Kramer
  • Maintaining the matriline : childrens birth order roles and educational attainment among Thai Khon Mang / Lisa Rende Taylor
  • Patterns of Shiwiar health insults indicate that provisioning during health crises reduces juvenile mortality / Lawrence S. Sugiyama (
  • Giving, scrounging, hiding, and selling : minimal food sharing among Mikea of Madagascar / Bram Tucker
  • What explains Hadza food sharing? / Frank W. Marlowe
  • Ideology, religion, and the evolution of cooperation : field experiments on Israeli Kibbutzim / Richard Sosis, Bradley J. Ruffle.