Beckerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beckerman |
| FAMILY NAME | Beckerman |
| SIGNATURE | BECKERMAN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7830-175X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 342 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Bands (and Longhouses) of Brothers (and Sisters): Siblinghood Among the Barí of the Maracaibo Basin
Ethnographic evidence from the Barí suggests that for these people the sibling-sibling connection is at least as prominent as the parent-child connection and the husband-wife connection as a foundational kin bond by means of which their overall social organization is constructed. In particular, siblinghood is probably the most important bond in the creation and perpetuation of the local longhouse groups that are the subsistence and residential ba…
Siblings in Lowland South America: Introduction to the Special Issue
The Proximate Causes of Waorani Warfare
The anthropology of marriage in lowland South America: Bending and Breaking the Rules
This volume reveals that individuals in Amazonian cultures often disregard or reinterpret the marriage rules of their societies--rules that anthropologists previously thought reflected practice. It is the first book to consider not just what the rules are but how people in these societies negotiate, manipulate, and break them in choosing whom to marry. Using ethnographic case studies that draw on previously unpublished material from well-known in…
Partible Paternity, the Secondary Sex Ratio, and a Possible Trivers-Willard Effect
Partible paternity, the belief that a child can have more than one biological father, is widespread in lowland South America. An analysis of demographic data sets from four lowland tribes (Aché, Barí, Ese Eja, and Surui) reveals a systematic variation in the sex ratios of live births with respect to the number of fathers to whom the births are attributed. Births attributed to only one father show a sex ratio that is unexceptional for South Americ…
Living with Kin in Lowland Horticultural Societies
Postmarital residence patterns in traditional human societies figure prominently in models of hominid social evolution with arguments for patrilocal human bands similar in structure to female-dispersal systems in other African apes. However, considerable flexibility in hunter-gatherer cultures has led to their characterization as primarily multilocal. Horticulturalists are associated with larger, more sedentary social groups with more political i…
Life histories, blood revenge, and reproductive success among the Waorani of Ecuador
The Waorani may have the highest rate of homicide of any society known to anthropology. We interviewed 121 Waorani elders of both sexes to obtain genealogical information and recollections of raids in which they and their relatives participated. We also obtained complete raiding histories of 95 warriors. An analysis of the raiding histories, marital trajectories, and reproductive histories of these men reveals that more aggressive warriors have l…
Upper Amazonian Warfare
The Barí Partible Paternity Project: Preliminary Results
On Native American Conservation and the Tragedy of the Commons
State-Tribal Warfare and Male-biased Casualties Among the Bari
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods [and Comments and Reply]
Elite Programs
Bar spear fishing: Advantages to group formation
Risk sensitive foraging behavior among the Bar
Unbiased sex ratios among the Bar: An evolutionary interpretation
Development theory meets the Amazon
Bunker, Stephen G. Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xiii + 279 pp. including glossary, references, and index. $24.50 cloth
The Equations of War
Weinstock's analogy
Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Development in Amazonian Ecuador . Norman E. Whitten, Jr
Cultural/Ethnology: The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
Optimal Foraging and Hominid Evolution: Labor and Reciprocity
We argue that cooperative foraging incorporating information exchange may have preceded tool use during the course of hominid evolution. In moving to the savanna, early hominids must have faced increasingly dispersed but sometimes more profitable food sources. The problem is finding such foods. Search costs can be reduced for each individual if a number of foragers cooperate by ranging over different parts of the habitat and by exchanging informa…
A note on ringed fields
Does the Swidden Ape the Jungle
Bar Swidden gardens: Crop Segregation patterns
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods [and Comments and Reply]
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
The Abundance of Protein in Amazonia: A Reply to Gross
A critical examination of Gross's hypothesis that aboriginal Amazonian populations were limited to low levels by lack of adequate protein resources concludes that (1) evidence either for or against the hypothesis is still in short supply; (2) the role of vegetable protein in aboriginal diets needs much more attention and may ultimately overthrow the protein‐limitation hypothesis; (3) the abundance of animal protein in the tropical forest has like…
Living with Kin in Lowland Horticultural Societies
Postmarital residence patterns in traditional human societies figure prominently in models of hominid social evolution with arguments for patrilocal human bands similar in structure to female-dispersal systems in other African apes. However, considerable flexibility in hunter-gatherer cultures has led to their characterization as primarily multilocal. Horticulturalists are associated with larger, more sedentary social groups with more political i…
The Barí Partible Paternity Project: Preliminary Results
Optimal Foraging and Hominid Evolution: Labor and Reciprocity
We argue that cooperative foraging incorporating information exchange may have preceded tool use during the course of hominid evolution. In moving to the savanna, early hominids must have faced increasingly dispersed but sometimes more profitable food sources. The problem is finding such foods. Search costs can be reduced for each individual if a number of foragers cooperate by ranging over different parts of the habitat and by exchanging informa…
On Native American Conservation and the Tragedy of the Commons
More on Amazon Cultural Ecology
The Versatility of Kinship
Partible Paternity, the Secondary Sex Ratio, and a Possible Trivers-Willard Effect
Partible paternity, the belief that a child can have more than one biological father, is widespread in lowland South America. An analysis of demographic data sets from four lowland tribes (Aché, Barí, Ese Eja, and Surui) reveals a systematic variation in the sex ratios of live births with respect to the number of fathers to whom the births are attributed. Births attributed to only one father show a sex ratio that is unexceptional for South Americ…
State-Tribal Warfare and Male-biased Casualties Among the Bari
The Proximate Causes of Waorani Warfare
A note on ringed fields
An unusual live‐birth sex ratio in Ecuador
An unusual live‐birth sex ratio in Ecuador
The Yanoama Indians: A Cultural Geography
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
The Abundance of Protein in Amazonia: A Reply to Gross
A critical examination of Gross's hypothesis that aboriginal Amazonian populations were limited to low levels by lack of adequate protein resources concludes that (1) evidence either for or against the hypothesis is still in short supply; (2) the role of vegetable protein in aboriginal diets needs much more attention and may ultimately overthrow the protein‐limitation hypothesis; (3) the abundance of animal protein in the tropical forest has like…
On Ecology, Choice, and Amazonian Settlement Patterns
More on Amazon Cultural Ecology
Further Data on the Oyacachi Live-Birth Sex Ratio
The Versatility of Kinship
Does the Swidden Ape the Jungle
Bar Swidden gardens: Crop Segregation patterns
Order without Government: The Society of the Pemon Indians of Venezuela
A note on ringed fields
Cultural/Ethnology: The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
Optimal Foraging and Hominid Evolution: Labor and Reciprocity
We argue that cooperative foraging incorporating information exchange may have preceded tool use during the course of hominid evolution. In moving to the savanna, early hominids must have faced increasingly dispersed but sometimes more profitable food sources. The problem is finding such foods. Search costs can be reduced for each individual if a number of foragers cooperate by ranging over different parts of the habitat and by exchanging informa…
Weinstock's analogy
Sicuanga Runa: The Other Side of Development in Amazonian Ecuador . Norman E. Whitten, Jr
Bar spear fishing: Advantages to group formation
Risk sensitive foraging behavior among the Bar
Unbiased sex ratios among the Bar: An evolutionary interpretation
Development theory meets the Amazon
Bunker, Stephen G. Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xiii + 279 pp. including glossary, references, and index. $24.50 cloth
The Equations of War
Elite Programs
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work: An Ancient Version of the Problem of Public Goods [and Comments and Reply]
State-Tribal Warfare and Male-biased Casualties Among the Bari
On Native American Conservation and the Tragedy of the Commons
Sociology (22 works) · Biology (16 works) · Geography (16 works) · History (13 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Amazon rainforest (8 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Demography (8 works) · History (8 works)