Saami reindeer herders cooperate with social group members and genetic kin

Thomas, Matthew Gwynfryn; Næss, Marius Warg; Bårdsen, Bård‐Jørgen; Mace, Ruth

doi:10.1093/beheco/arv106

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“…They work together with several families in Sami homes (Siida). Such communities are found in Norway [40], Sweden [41] and Finland [42]. By the turn of the century (1800–1900), the nomadic settlements changed to other types of living.…”

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”We own the illness”: a qualitative study of networks in two communities with mixed ethnicity in Northern Norway

Langås-Larsen

Salamonsen²,

Kristoffersen

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Background: When people in Northern Norway get ill, they often use traditional medicine. The global aim of this study was to examine the extended family networks’ function and responsibility in cases of illness in the family, in two Northern Norwegian communities with a population of mixed ethnicity. Methods: Semi-structured individual interviews with 13 participants and 4 focus group interviews with total 11 participants were conducted. The text data was transcribed verbatim and analysed based on the criteria for content analysis. Results: The participants grew up in areas where it was common to seek help from traditional healers. They were organized in networks and shared responsibility for the patient and they provided practical help and support for the family. According to the networks, health-care personnel should make room for the entire network to visit the patient in severe and life-threatening situations. Conclusion: Traditional networks are an extra resource for people in these communities. The networks seem to be essential in handling and disseminating hope and manageability on an individual as well as a collective level. Health personnel working in communities with mixed ethnicity should have thorough knowledge of the mixed culture, including the importance of traditional network to the patients.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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”We own the illness”: a qualitative study of networks in two communities with mixed ethnicity in Northern Norway

Langås-Larsen

Salamonsen²,

Kristoffersen

et al. 2018

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…These were categorized according to various criteria relevant to the evolution of cooperation, such as kinship, reciprocity, need, and personal qualities, among others (figure 2 and table S4; for a similar procedure, see Gervais, 2017;Thomas et al, 2015…”

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A friend in need is a friend indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers

Smith

Dyble

Major³

et al. 2019

Evolution and Human Behavior

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“…Saami pastoralists organise themselves into cooperative herding groups known as siidas , which are the focal points of cooperation (Thomas et al 2015). The siida is a collective action group tied to an area of pastureland.…”

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“…Saami pastoralists work in cooperative groups of both kin and non-kin, and these groups cooperate and conflict to varying extents (Paine 1994; Thomas et al 2015). Herding groups contain varying numbers of people and thus we expect to find differing levels of cooperation across groups.…”

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