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The purpose of exchange helps shape the mode of exchange

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Raymond Hames
Raymond Hames*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Geography, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE68588-0368http://www.unl.edu/rhames
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rhames@unl.edu
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Abstract:

In his state-of-the-art review, Gurven compares evolutionary theories of food transfers in ethnographic settings. Although this is useful, I suggest that one must first try to determine the utility of food transfers before making predictions about which parties ought to receive food. In addition, I argue that tests of kin selection theory present a special problem in food transfers.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 564 - 565
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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