Food and its vicissitudes: a cross-cultural study of sharing and nonsharing

Social Structure and Personality, a Casebook • Holt, Rinehart and Winston • New York • Published In • Pages: 312-350 •
By Cohen, Yehudi A.

Abstract

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Ethnographic Reports

Hypotheses (3)

HypothesisSupported
"Conversely, in those societies in which infants and young children are not fed whenever they communicate the desire for food individuals will, as adults, amass or hoard their wealth. . ." (318)Supported
". . . where children are fed on demand the emotional predisposition to share will find its most elaborate expression in the maximally solidary community; it will find its medial expression in the solidary-fissile community; and its minimal expression in the non-nucleated society" (318)Supported
"In those societies in which infants and young children are fed whenever they cry for food or ask for food individuals will, as adults, share their food or money, or both, with other people" (318)Supported
Documents and Hypotheses Filed By: mas  Amelia Piazza