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Socioeconomic aspects of human behavioral ecology

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Socioeconomic aspects of human behavioral ecology/ edited by MichaelAlvard.
other author:	Alvard, Michael S.
Published:	Bingley, U.K. :Emerald, : 2004.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 402 p.).
Subject:	Business & Economics - Management Science. -
Online resource:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0190-1281/23
ISBN:	9781849502559 (electronic bk.)

Socioeconomic aspects of human behavioral ecology
Socioeconomic aspects of human behavioral ecology[electronic resource] /edited by MichaelAlvard. - Bingley, U.K. :Emerald,2004. - 1 online resource (x, 402 p.). - Research in economic anthropology,v. 230190-1281 ;. - Research in economic anthropology ;v. 22..

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 andsex 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 orderroles 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.

As a field, anthropology brings an explicit evolutionary approach tothe 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 acknowledged if one is to know what it means to be a human being (What is Anthropology?). The papers in this volume embody the view ofanthropology explicit in the above statement. Behavioral ecology explains human behavior through the application of evolutionary theory in ecological context. It focuses onhow behavior is influenced by the constraints of reproduction and resources acquisition. As a result, its purview is a wide swath of anthropology, especially economic anthropology. Human behavior varies through the life course, and humans make choices or exhibit behavioral variation depending on the costs, benefits, and constraints of local socioeconomic contexts. Pan-human conscious and unconscious processes generate these decisions, because over evolutionary time scales they produced, on average, behavior that increased the relative reproductive success of their bearers. Behavioral ecology examinesthese adaptive behavioral responses to local conditions. The volumes papers demonstrate behavioral ecology's maturation as a subfield of anthropology. They demonstrate the breadth of problems that can be gainfully addressed within the paradigm and the richness of specific hypothesesand data that this perspective can generate. The papers also show how behavioral ecology conceptually integrates the core of biological anthropology with the other subdisciplines by providing a common framework for investigating and understanding basic economic questions.

ISBN: 9781849502559 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

809120
Business & Economics
--Management Science.

LC Class. No.: GN448 / .S63 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 306.3

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 338.2

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