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Giving, Scrounging, Hiding, And Selling: Minimal Food Sharing Among Mikea Of Madagascar

In: Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology

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Anthropologists commonly accept that generous food sharing is universal to small-scale subsistence populations. This paper uses observational data from a Mikea community in southwestern Madagascar to demonstrate the following: (1) Most foods are rarely shared, i.e. transferred between households; exceptions are prepared food and livestock meat; (2) Clusters of closely related households feed each other’s members reciprocally, and inconsistent with kin selection, unrelated affines are the major distributors; and (3) Tolerated theft and market value explain why livestock meat is widely shared, why scroungers are invited to share vegetal foods but rarely do, and why small game and honey are both actively defended (by hiding, theft) and scrounged (by demand sharing).

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  • Bram Tucker, 2004. "Giving, Scrounging, Hiding, And Selling: Minimal Food Sharing Among Mikea Of Madagascar," Research in Economic Anthropology, in: Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology, pages 45-68, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reanzz:s0190-1281(04)23002-5
    DOI: 10.1016/S0190-1281(04)23002-5
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