essay
Redistribution: equity or exploitation
human reproductive behaviour : a darwinian perspective • Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] • Published In 1988 • Pages: 49-63
By: Betzig, Laura L..
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Woleai Region
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Micronesia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi A. Adem ; 2005
- Field Date
- 1983, 1986
- Coverage Date
- 1797-1986
- Coverage Place
- Ifaluk, Woleai Region, Federated States of Micronesia
- Notes
- Laura Betzig
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63)
- LCCN
- 87006629
- LCSH
- Ifaluk Atoll (Micronesia)/Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs