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Hawkes, Kristen | Binumarien color categories | This paper has two aims. The first is to describe an ethnographically new system of color classification, Binumarien, a non-Austronesian or Papuan language of the Eastern Central Highlands of New Guinea2. In this connection we are particularly interested in relating our data to the Berlin and Kay (1... | Binumarien; Binumariens | 1975 |
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Wiessner, Pauline W. | On emergency decisions, egalitarianism, and group selection | Boehm (CA 37:763-93) puts forward an important thesis-that with the evolution of egalitarian societies, privileged routes to reproductive advantage are blocked and the power of individua selection severely compromised. With competition so constrained, altruistic behavior can more readily spread i... | Boehm's mode; Evolution of altruistic behavior | 1998-06 |
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Wiessner, Pauline W. | On network analysis: the potential for understanding (and misunderstanding) !Kung Hxaro | Schweizer's social network analysis (CA 38: 739-52) of gift giving among the !Kung San (Ju/'hoansi) demonstrates most elegantly how individual strategies, guided by basic cultural rules, coalesce to form a regional system. Complex connections in the network that defied description with simpler anayt... | Density of kinship; Nonsymmetry; Ethnohistorica | 1998-08 |
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McElreath, Richard | Economic man in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies | Since "Selfishness examined . . ." (Caporael et al. 1989) appeared in these pages, more than 15 years ago, many additional experiments have strongly confirmed the doubts expressed by Caporael and her collaborators concerning the adequacy of self-interest as a behavioral foundation for the social sci... | Economic outcomes; Selfishness; Fairness; Reciprocity | 2005 |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Assignment of relationship terms in Binumarien | Kinship systems have a perennial fascination. From Morgan's day to the present, a long succession of authors have produced their diagrams and algebraic explanations . . . Kinship terminology and its diagramatic arrangements provide, ready made, a delightful series of mathematical abstractions and it... | Binumarien; Binumariens | 1977 |
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