Indigenous Siberian Food Sharing Networks: Social Innovation in a Transforming Economy

John P. Ziker () and Karen S. Fulk
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John P. Ziker: Boise State University
Karen S. Fulk: Boise State University

A chapter in Collaborative Innovation Networks, 2018, pp 117-127 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The sustainability of indigenous communities in the Arctic, and the vulnerable households within, is in large part dependent on their continuing food security. A social food-sharing network within the Ust’-Avam community on the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Siberia is analyzed for underlying patterns of resilience and key evolutionarily stable strategies supporting cooperative behavior. Factors influencing the network include interhousehold relatedness, reciprocal sharing, and interaction effects. Social association also influences sharing. Evidence for multiple determinants of food sharing in this sample is discussed in reference to major evolutionary hypotheses and comparable studies. In sum, the findings illustrate the robustness of self-organizing distribution networks in an economic context of uncertainty.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74295-3_10

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