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T1 Effect of resource spatial correlation and Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer mobility on social cooperation in Tierra del Fuego
A1 Santos Martín, José Ignacio
A1 Pereda, María
A1 Zurro, Débora
A1 Álvarez, Myrian
A1 Caro Saiz, Jorge
A1 Galán Ordax, José Manuel
A1 Briz i Godino, Ivan
K1 Industrial management
K1 Gestión de empresas
AB This article presents an agent-based model designed to explore the development of cooperationin hunter-fisher-gatherer societies that face a dilemma of sharing an unpredictable resourcethat is randomly distributed in space. The model is a stylised abstraction of theYamana society, which inhabited the channels and islands of the southernmost part ofTierra del Fuego (Argentina-Chile). According to ethnographic sources, the Yamana developedcooperative behaviour supported by an indirect reciprocity mechanism: wheneversomeone found an extraordinary confluence of resources, such as a beached whale, theywould use smoke signals to announce their find, bringing people together to share food andexchange different types of social capital. The model provides insight on how the spatialconcentration of beachings and agents’ movements in the space can influence cooperation.We conclude that the emergence of informal and dynamic communities that operate as avigilance network preserves cooperation and makes defection very costly.
PB Public Library Science
SN 1932-6203
YR 2015
FD 2015-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/3910
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/3910
LA eng
NO MICINN http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/ CSD2010-00034 (SimulPast CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010) and HAR2009-06996; the government of Castilla y Leónhttp://www.jcyl.es/ GREX251-2009; the Argentine CONICET http://www.conicet.gov.ar/PIP-0706; and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Researchhttp://www.wennergren.org/ "Social Aggregation: A Yamana Society's Short Term Episode to Analyse Social Interaction, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina". The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 24-nov-2024