Good hunters keep smaller shares of larger pies Academic Article uri icon

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.

published proceedings

  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

author list (cited authors)

  • Alvard, M.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Alvard, Michael

publication date

  • August 2004