essay
Redistribution: equity or exploitation
Human reproductive behaviour : a Darwinian perspective • Cambridge [cambridgeshire] • Published In 1988 • Pages: 49-63
By: Betzig, Laura L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article argues that Ifaluk chiefs strategically manipulated their customarily accepted roles as redistributors of collectively pooled resources to promote their own personal self-interests in the form of control over more food and producing more children (descendants) than others.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Birth statistics
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Gift giving
- Status, role, and prestige
- Etiquette
- Secondary marriages
- Household
- Community heads
- Exploitation
- Conception
- Childbirth
- Child care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Woleai Region
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi A. Adem ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1983, 1986
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1797-1986
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ifaluk, Woleai Region, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laura Betzig
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87006629
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ifaluk Atoll (Micronesia)/Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs