{"id":1389,"date":"2010-03-08T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2010-03-09T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T22:46:22","slug":"rebecca-bliege-bird-on-mutualism-altruism-and-signaling-in-martu-women%e2%80%99s-cooperative-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2010\/03\/08\/rebecca-bliege-bird-on-mutualism-altruism-and-signaling-in-martu-women%e2%80%99s-cooperative-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Bliege Bird on Mutualism, Altruism, and Signaling in Martu Women\u2019s Cooperative Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Bliege Bird tested a conventional hypothesis of cooperative hunting &#8211; that working together will yield higher returns than working alone &#8211; among female hunters of the Martu Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. She found that cooperation only provides increased returns to poorer hunters while disadvantaging better hunters. Rebecca tests a signaling model of benefit, which proposes that better hunters share a greater proportion of their catch than poorer hunters as a way to signal a commitment to public goods provisioning and egalitarianism through their &#8216;pecuniary disinterest&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/projects\/lawlab\/2010-03-08_bird\/2010-03-08_bird.mov\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/projects\/lawlab\/2010-03-08_bird\/2010-03-08_bird.mov.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click Above for Video<br \/>\n&#8230;or download the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/projects\/lawlab\/2010-03-08_bird\/2010-03-08_bird640.ogv\">OGG video format!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Bliege Bird tested a conventional hypothesis of cooperative hunting &#8211; that working together will yield higher returns than working alone &#8211; among female hunters of the Martu Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. She found that cooperation only provides increased returns to poorer hunters while disadvantaging better hunters. Rebecca tests a signaling model of benefit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[681,590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-berkman-center","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}