Comparison of social complexity in two independent pastoralist societies
Pastoralists rely on networks of cooperating households containing relatives and others to help with production and various other daily activities. To understand how socioecological differences and commonalities affect different social networks, we compared cooperative decision-making using gift gam...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:10080009 2023-12-24T10:24:33+01:00 Comparison of social complexity in two independent pastoralist societies Du, J Thomas, MG Bardsen, B-J Mace, R Naess, MW 2019-01 text https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080009/3/Mace%20Pastoralist%20social%20complexity%20-%20Du%20et%20al.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080009/ eng eng SPRINGER https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080009/3/Mace%20Pastoralist%20social%20complexity%20-%20Du%20et%20al.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080009/ open Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , 73 , Article 4. (2019) Evolution of cooperation social networks field experiment social institutions Article 2019 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:29Z Pastoralists rely on networks of cooperating households containing relatives and others to help with production and various other daily activities. To understand how socioecological differences and commonalities affect different social networks, we compared cooperative decision-making using gift games for 755 people working in herding groups across six sites in two countries (Saami areas in Norway and Tibetan areas in China). We found that members of the same herding group received more gifts from each other. Most variance in gift-giving between study sites was due to differences in the effects of relatedness. Tibetan herders were more likely than Saami herders to give gifts to closer relatives belonging to geographically distant herding groups. Also, stated reasons of giving gifts were different in the two societies: kin and wealth (measured by herd size) were more important among Tibetan pastoralists, while reciprocity was more important among Saami. Social ties within and beyond the family as well as the centrality of herding groups within social networks are general patterns of social organization favoring cooperation among pastoralist Article in Journal/Newspaper saami University College London: UCL Discovery Norway |
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Pastoralists rely on networks of cooperating households containing relatives and others to help with production and various other daily activities. To understand how socioecological differences and commonalities affect different social networks, we compared cooperative decision-making using gift games for 755 people working in herding groups across six sites in two countries (Saami areas in Norway and Tibetan areas in China). We found that members of the same herding group received more gifts from each other. Most variance in gift-giving between study sites was due to differences in the effects of relatedness. Tibetan herders were more likely than Saami herders to give gifts to closer relatives belonging to geographically distant herding groups. Also, stated reasons of giving gifts were different in the two societies: kin and wealth (measured by herd size) were more important among Tibetan pastoralists, while reciprocity was more important among Saami. Social ties within and beyond the family as well as the centrality of herding groups within social networks are general patterns of social organization favoring cooperation among pastoralist |
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Comparison of social complexity in two independent pastoralist societies |
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