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Good hunters keep smaller shares of larger pies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Michael Alvard
Michael Alvard*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, 4352 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas77843-4352http://anthropology.tamu.edu/faculty/alvard/profile.htm
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Abstract:

High producers are motivated to hunt in spite of high levels of sharing because the transfers come from absolutely larger amounts of resource. In the context of a generalized cooperative subsistence strategy, stinginess could provoke the withdrawal of cooperative partners and result in a loss of income. Good producers could have more to lose by not sharing than poor producers would.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 560 - 561
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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