The Effects of Wealth on Male Reproduction among Monogamous Hunter-Fisher-Trappers in Northern Siberia
| Autor: | John P. Ziker, Joellie Rasmussen, David A. Nolin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
Archeology education.field_of_study Resource (biology) Reproductive success Reproduction (economics) 05 social sciences Foraging Population 050109 social psychology 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Indigenous First birth Mate choice Anthropology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology education Demography |
| Zdroj: | Current Anthropology. 57:221-229 |
| ISSN: | 1537-5382 0011-3204 |
| Popis: | Variability in men’s reproductive success (RS) is partly attributable to the ability of successful men to influence resource flows relevant to the mate choice and reproduction of women. This study explores the effects of variability in resource flows on men’s RS in an indigenous foraging/mixed-economy community in northern Siberia where monogamous marriage norms predominate. A series of material, embodied, and relational wealth indicators are tested as predictors of men’s age-adjusted RS and age at first birth. Material wealth related to hunting, embodied wealth as represented by hunting skill, and relational wealth as represented by numbers of kin are the most consistent predictors of men’s RS. In this monogamous population, the wives of men with more hunting capital and of men rated as better hunters have shorter interbirth intervals, and hunters show strong producer priority. These findings and ethnographic observations appear more consistent with a provisioning model than with a signaling-for-mates model. |
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