Paying It Forward or Giving Back? Women’s Sharing Networks in Siberia

Ziker, John P.; Fulk, Karen S.

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“…To get an adequate sense of how egocentric networks vary, researchers should choose a stratified random sample of individuals representative of distinct positions or social groups within the social environment of interest (Heckathorn, 2002). Food diaries, which have been used to describe food environments (Walker et al, 2010), can be combined with contact diaries to document egocentric food networks (Fu, 2005(Fu, , 2007Ziker & Fulk, 2019).…”

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“…In urban environments, sociopolitical institutions and economic conditions also shape the food landscape and define access to food. In both rural and urban contexts practices such as the informal pooling and redistribution of resources via social networks are vital sociocultural responses to fluctuating access to food (e.g., Reese, 2019; Scaggs et al, 2021; Ziker & Fulk, 2019). For these reasons, food insecurity is a topic of importance to both human biologists and human ecologists.…”

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Measuring food insecurity: An introduction to tools for human biologists and ecologists

Piperata

Scaggs

Dufour

et al. 2022

American J Hum Biol

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Objective: Food insecurity is a significant and growing concern undermining the wellbeing of 30% of the global population. Food in/security is a complex construct consisting of four dimensions: availability, access, utilization, and stability, making it challenging to measure. We provide a toolkit human biologists/ecologists can use to advance research on this topic.Methods: We review the strengths and limitations of common tools used to measure food access and utilization, the two dimensions most proximate to people's lived experience, and emphasize tools that provide data needed to best link food security with human biological outcomes. We also discuss methods that provide contextual data human biologists/ecologists will find useful for study design, ensuring instrument validity, and improving data quality.Results: Food access is principally measured using experience-based instruments that emphasize economic access. Social access, such as food sharing, is under-studied and we recommend using social network analysis to explore this dimension. In terms of utilization, emphasis has been on food choice measured as dietary diversity. Food preparation and intrahousehold distribution, also part of the utilization dimension, are less studied and standardized instruments for measuring both are lacking. The embodiment of food insecurity has focused on child growth, although a growing literature addresses adult mental wellbeing and chronic and infectious disease risk.Conclusions: We see the potential to expand outcomes to include reproductive and immune function, physical activity, and the gut microbiome. Human biologists/ecologists are well-positioned to advance understanding of the human health impacts of food insecurity and provide data to support intervention efforts.

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Section: Social Network: Complete Egocentric and Multilayermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring food insecurity: An introduction to tools for human biologists and ecologists

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Scaggs

Dufour

et al. 2022

American J Hum Biol

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“…One of the central pillars of arctic microeconomies involves the role and maintenance of kinship relations in redistributive resource practices—and how these relate to the continued sustainability of Arctic Indigenous societies. Addressing the lack of research on the key adaptive instruments and the essence of connectivities which the symposium set out to explore (e.g., coping devices such as kin alliances), Ziker and Fulk’s research (2019) demonstrates the value of redistributive resource sharing practices in terms of the evolution of cooperative behavior, as well as what this looks like in cultural and practical terms today.…”

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“…Each paper addresses the question from a different comparative perspective, encompassing the views of anthropology (Hastrup, 2019; Ziker and Fulk, 2019), ecology (Vestbo et al, 2019), and archeology (Walsh et al, 2019). The resulting issue embraces a wide scope of methodological techniques ranging from cross-cultural comparative analysis and socioecological change studies to macro-level social economics, all of which address challenges facing arctic communities today.…”

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Arctic Disequilibrium: Shifting Human-Environmental Systems

Veldhuis

Tejsner

Riede

et al. 2018

Cross-Cultural Research

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“…Thus far, to understand such cooperative subsistence practices in humans, extant research has focused on the ways in which men solve the challenges presented during and after collaborative hunting (7,10,(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18). Although women's cooperation in subsistence activities-beyond alloparenting and food sharing-has received attention (19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27), the network structure of women's subsistence groups remains largely understudied [but see (28) for emerging work].…”

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Women’s subsistence networks scaffold cultural transmission among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin

Jang,

Ross,

Boyette

et al. 2024

Sci. Adv.

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In hunter-gatherer societies, women’s subsistence activities are crucial for food provisioning and children’s social learning but are understudied relative to men’s activities. To understand the structure of women’s foraging networks, we present 230 days of focal-follow data in a BaYaka community. To analyze these data, we develop a stochastic blockmodel for repeat observations with uneven sampling. We find that women’s subsistence networks are characterized by cooperation between kin, gender homophily, and mixed age-group composition. During early childhood, individuals preferentially coforage with adult kin, but those in middle childhood and adolescence are likely to coforage with nonkin peers, providing opportunities for horizontal learning. By quantifying the probability of coforaging ties across age classes and relatedness levels, our findings provide insights into the scope for social learning during women’s subsistence activities in a real-world foraging population and provide ground-truth values for key parameters used in formal models of cumulative culture.

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Paying It Forward or Giving Back? Women’s Sharing Networks in Siberia

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Measuring food insecurity: An introduction to tools for human biologists and ecologists

Measuring food insecurity: An introduction to tools for human biologists and ecologists

Arctic Disequilibrium: Shifting Human-Environmental Systems

Women’s subsistence networks scaffold cultural transmission among BaYaka foragers in the Congo Basin

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