Daily Food Sharing

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Ringen, Erik J. The evolution of daily food sharing: A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis

Associated Hypotheses (7)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Ringen, Erik J. Societies relying on animal husbandry for subsistence will tend not to have daily sharing between households.
Ringen, Erik J. Societies relying on hunting will have more daily food sharing than those relying on other forms of subsistence.
Ringen, Erik J. Societies with food storing technology will have less daily food sharing norms than those where technology is absent.
Ringen, Erik J. Societies with less predictable environments will have more daily food sharing norms than those with more predictable environments.
Ringen, Erik J. Societies with daily labor sharing will be more likely to also have regular, daily food sharing norms than those without daily labor sharing.
Ringen, Erik J. Societies with external trade of food will be less likely to have daily food sharing norms than those where external food exchange is absent.
Ringen, Erik J. Societies that are smaller in community size will have more daily food sharing norms than those that are larger.

Associated OCMs

  1. eating
  2. gift giving
  3. mutual aid