Sago games: Cooperation and change among sago producers of Papua New Guinea

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 89-108

  Dwyer, Peter D ^a   Minnegal, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Game theory; Papua new guinea; Prisoner's dilemma; Reciprocal altruism; Sago

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; GAME THEORY; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SAGO PRODUCTION;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0031081879     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1090-5138(97)00005-6     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Austad, S.N. A game theoretical interpretation of male combat in the bowl and daily spider (Frontinella pyramitela). Animal Behaviour 31:59-73, 1983.
2. Axelrod, R. The Evolution of Cooperation, New York: Basic Books, 1984.
3. Axelrod, R., and Hamilton. W. The evolution of cooperation. Science 211:1390-1396, 1981.
4. Blurton Jones, N.G. A selfish origin for human food sharing: Tolerated theft. Ethology and Sociobiology 5:1-3, 1984.
5. Bonhage-Freund. M.T. and Kurland, J. Tit-for-tat among the Iroquois: A game theoretical perspective on intertribal political organization. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 13:278-305, 1994.
6. Boyd, R. Is the repeated prisoner's dilemma a good model for reciprocal altruism? Ethology and Sociobiology 9:211-222, 1987.
7. Boyd, R. The evolution of reciprocity when conditions vary. In Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals, A. Harcourt and F. de Waal (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 473-489.
8. Boyd, R., and Richerson, P.J. The evolution of reciprocity in sizeable groups. Journal of Theoretical Biology 132:337-356, 1988.
9. Coleman, A.M. Game Theory and Its Applications in the Social and Biological Sciences, London: Butterworth Heinemann. 1995.
10. De Vos, H., and Zeggelink. E. The emergence of reciprocal altruism and group living: An object-oriented simulation model of human social evolution. Social Science Information 33:493-517, 1994.
11. Dugatkin, L.A. N-person games and the evolution of co-operation: A model based on predator inspection in fish. Journal of Theoretical Biology 142:123-135, 1990.
12. Dugatkin, L.A., and Wilson, D.S. ROVER: A strategy for exploiting cooperators in a patchy environment. The American Naturalist 138:687-702, 1991.
13. Dwyer, P.D., and Minnegal, M. Hunting in lowland tropical rainforest: Towards a model of non-agricultural subsistence. Human Ecology 19:187-212, 1991.
14. Dwyer, P.D., and Minnegal, M. Ecology and community dynamics of Kubo people in the tropical lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Human Ecology 20:21-55, 1992.
15. Dwyer, P.D., and Minnegal, M. Sago palms and variable garden yields. A case study from Papua New Guinea. Man and Culture in Oceania 10:81-102, 1994.
16. Dwyer. P.D., and Minnegal, M. Ownership, individual effort and the organization of labour among Kubo sago producers of Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Science 103:91-104. 1995.
17. Hammerstein, P., and Reichert, S.E. Payoffs and strategies in terrestrial contests: ESS analysis of two ecotypes of the spider Agelenopsis aperta. Evolutionary Ecology 2:115-138, 1988.
18. Hawkes, K. Sharing and collective action, In Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior, E.A. Smith and B. Winterhalder (Eds.). New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992. pp. 269-300.
19. Houston, A.I. Mobility limits cooperation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8:194-196, 1993.
20. Ingold, T. The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986.
21. Kaplan, H., and Hill, K. Food sharing among Aché foragers: Tests of explanatory hypotheses. Current Anthropology 26:223-246, 1985.
22. Kelly, R.C. Constructing Inequality: The Fabrication of a Hierarchy of Virtue Among the Etoro, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993.
23. Kreps, D.M., Milgrom. P., Roberts, J., and Wilson, R. Rational cooperation in the finitely repeated prisoner's dilemma. Journal of Economic Theory 27:245-252, 1982.
24. Maynard Smith, J. Evolution and the Theory of Games, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
25. Mealey, L. The sociobioiogy of sociopathology: An integrated evolutionary model, Behavioural and Brain Sciences 18:523-599, 1995.
26. Moore, J. The evolution of reciprocal sharing. Ethology and Sociobioiogy 5:5-14, 1984.
27. Myers, F. Burning the truck and holding the country: Property, time and the negotiation of identity ammong Pintupi Aborigines. In Hunters and Gatherers Vol. 2: Property, Power and Ideology, T. Ingold, D. Riches, and J. Woodburn (Eds.). Oxford: Berg, 1988, pp. 52-74.
28. Nowak, M.A., and May, R.M. Evolutionary games and spatial chaos. Nature 359:826-829, 1992.
29. Nowak, M.A., and Sigmund, K. Tit for tat in heterogeneous populations. Nature 355:250-253, 1992.
30. Nowak, M.A., and Sigmund, K. A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit-for-tat in the Prisoner's Dilemma game. Nature 380:56-58, 1993.
31. Pool, R. Putting game theory to the test. Science 267:1591-1593, 1995.
32. Pruett-Jones, S., and Pruett-Jones, M. Sexual competition and courtship disruptions: Why do male bowerbirds destroy each other's bowers? Animal Behaviour 47:607-620, 1994.
33. Sinervo, B., and Lively, C.M. The rock-paper-scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies. Nature 380:240-243, 1996.
34. Suda, K. Leveling mechanisms in a recently relocated Kubor village, Papua New Guinea: A socio-behavioral analysis of sago-making. Man and Culture in Oceania 6:99-112, 1990.
35. Trivers, R. The evolution of reciprocal altruism. Quarterly Review of Biology 46:35-57, 1971.
36. Uyenoyama, M.K., and Feldman, M.W. Altruism: Some theoretical ambiguities. In Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, E. Keller and E.A. Lloyd (Eds.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. 34-40.
37. Wilkinson, G.S. Reciprocal food sharing in the vampire bat. Nature 308:181-184, 1984.
38. Winterhalder, B. A marginal model of tolerated theft. Ethology and Sociobioiogy 17:37-53, 1996.
39. Zar, J.H. Biostatistical Analysis, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996.