Nicaragua: Interhousehold Meat Sharing Among Mayangna And Miskito Horticulturalists In Nicaragua

Nicaragua: Interhousehold Meat Sharing Among Mayangna And Miskito Horticulturalists In Nicaragua Jeremy Koster, 2011   Recent analyses of food sharing in small-scale societies indicate that reciprocal altruism maintains interhousehold food transfers, even among close kin. In this study, matrix-based regression methods are used to test the explanatory power of reciprocal altruism, kin selection, and tolerated scrounging. In a network of 35 households in Nicaragua’s Bosawas Reserve, the...

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