Quantifying the relationship between food sharing practices and socio-ecological variables in small-scale societies: a cross-cultural multi-methodological approach

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• dc.contributor.author Ahedo, Virginia
• dc.contributor.author Caro, Jorge
• dc.contributor.author Bortolini, Eugenio
• dc.contributor.author Zurro, Debora
• dc.contributor.author Madella, Marco
• dc.contributor.author Galán, José Manuel
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-24T09:44:13Z
• dc.date.available 2023-01-24T09:44:13Z
• dc.date.issued 2019
• dc.description.abstract This article presents a cross-cultural study of the relationship among the subsistence strategies, the environmental setting and the food sharing practices of 22 modern small-scale societies located in America (n = 18) and Siberia (n = 4). Ecological, geographical and economic variables of these societies were extracted from specialized literature and the publicly available D-PLACE database. The approach proposed comprises a variety of quantitative methods, ranging from exploratory techniques aimed at capturing relationships of any type between variables, to network theory and supervised-learning predictive modelling. Results provided by all techniques consistently show that the differences observed in food sharing practices across the sampled populations cannot be explained just by the differential distribution of ecological, geographical and economic variables. Food sharing has to be interpreted as a more complex cultural phenomenon, whose variation over time and space cannot be ascribed only to local adaptation.
• dc.description.sponsorship The authors acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities: SimulPast Project (CSD2010-00034 CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010), (VA, JC, EB, DZ, MM, JMG), Consolider Excellence Network (HAR2017-90883-REDC) (VA, JC, EB, DZ, MM, JMG), and CULM Project (HAR2016-77672-P) (DZ, JC, MM). In addition, this work was partially supported by the European Social Fund, as the corresponding author is the recipient of a predoctoral grant from the Department of Education of Junta de Castilla y León (VA). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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• dc.identifier.citation Ahedo V, Caro J, Bortolini E, Zurro D, Madella M, Galán JM. Quantifying the relationship between food sharing practices and socio-ecological variables in small-scale societies: a cross-cultural multi-methodological approach. PLoS ONE. 2019 May 29;14(5):e0216302. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216302
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216302
• dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55422
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• dc.relation.ispartof PLoS ONE. 2019 May 29;14(5):e0216302
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSD2010-00034
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/HAR2017-90883-REDC
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/HAR2016-77672-P
• dc.rights © 2019 Ahedo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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• dc.subject.keyword Culture
• dc.subject.keyword Cross-cultural studies
• dc.subject.keyword Niche construction
• dc.subject.keyword Animal sociality
• dc.subject.keyword Inuit people
• dc.subject.keyword Food
• dc.subject.keyword Environmental geography
• dc.subject.keyword Social networks
• dc.title Quantifying the relationship between food sharing practices and socio-ecological variables in small-scale societies: a cross-cultural multi-methodological approach
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