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T1 Quantifying the relationship between food sharing practices and socio-ecological variables in small-scale societies: A cross-cultural multi-methodological approach
A1 Ahedo García, Virginia
A1 Caro Saiz, Jorge
A1 Bortolini, Eugenio
A1 Zurro, Débora
A1 Madella, Marco
A1 Galán Ordax, José Manuel
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
K1 Alimentos
K1 Food
AB This article presents a cross-cultural study of the relationship among the subsistence strategies, the environmental setting and the food sharing practices of 22 modern small-scale societies located in America (n = 18) and Siberia (n = 4). Ecological, geographical and economic variables of these societies were extracted from specialized literature and the publicly available D-PLACE database. The approach proposed comprises a variety of quantitative methods, ranging from exploratory techniques aimed at capturing relationships of any type between variables, to network theory and supervised-learning predictive modelling. Results provided by all techniques consistently show that the differences observed in food sharing practices across the sampled populations cannot be explained just by the differential distribution of ecological, geographical and economic variables. Food sharing has to be interpreted as a more complex cultural phenomenon, whose variation over time and space cannot be ascribed only to local adaptation.
PB Public Library Science
YR 2019
FD 2019-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5183
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5183
LA eng
NO Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities: SimulPast Project (CSD2010-00034 CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010), (VA, JC, EB, DZ, MM, JMG), Consolider Excellence Network (HAR2017-90883-REDC) (VA, JC, EB, DZ, MM, JMG), and CULM Project (HAR2016-77672-P)(DZ, JC, MM).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 20-abr-2024