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Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania.

McElreath, Richard.

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Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania./
Author:	McElreath, Richard.
Description:	162 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-09, Section: A, page: 3096.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3026244
ISBN:	9780493380124

Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania.
McElreath, Richard.

Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania. - 162 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-09, Section: A, page: 3096.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2001.

Chapter 1. Data on 238 informants from three ethnic groups replicate differences found before between East African farmers and herders (Edgerton 1971, Goldschmidt 1976) and map out the patterns of change in these domains among migrants between regions. These results demonstrate that it is possible to study at the population level which learning mechanisms, times of life, and ecological variables are responsible for the stability of cultural differences in the face of substantial migration.

ISBN: 9780493380124Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Culture and ecology of Usangu, Tanzania.
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520 $a Chapter 2. Researchers have sought to explain why small-scale, subsistence-oriented farmers seem risk averse. Our experimental and ethnographic findings among the Mapuche of Chile and the Sangu of Tanzania suggest that standard views of risk-averse decision-making may not be the best theoretical tools for understanding "peasant conservatism."
520 $a Chapter 3. Many societies exhibit honor systems wherein many individuals are willing to participate in contests over trivial matters. I present a game theoretic model which analyzes the logic of such a strategy. The results suggest such a strategy does well when (1) the value of the resource is large relative to the cost of losing a fight, (2) communities are stable, and (3) reputations are well known or easy to assess but not known without error.
520 $a Chapter 4. Punishment is often thought to be a mechanism for maintaining cooperation (Ostrom 1990, Boyd and Richerson 1992). This chapter presents a public goods game with punishment in a non-industrial, semi numerate society. My results generate two main conclusions: (1) a non-western population also violates standard economic assumptions and engages in costly punishment and (2) it is possible (but difficult) to successfully conduct n-person experimental games in field settings.
520 $a Chapter 5. It is commonly observed among African pastoralists that households with large herds enjoy approximately the same standard of living as poorer households. I develop a formal model of the idea that herd managers are attempting to optimize their reproductive success by trading off the fertility of each wife for greater total household fertility. I examine the model in light of data from both my own fieldwork and from another group of Tanzanian herders (the Datoga, Sieff 1995).
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