E Ready
Biographic Data
| ID | 33960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Ready |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ready |
| SIGNATURE | READY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8473-5826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
“You have no other choice”: Structural Impediments to Food Security and Sovereignty in the Canadian Arctic
This paper examines the food system of the community of Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. We draw on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork observations to describe the structural constraints Inuit face in food provisioning. While high costs of living and poverty shape Inuit access to food, we attend to the larger structural forces that underlie those factors and how Inuit manage them. We also examine social support structures, including …
“I'd say, ‘smoke a little weed, you'll feel better: ’” Ethnographic observations of cannabis use in the Canadian Arctic
This paper is an ethnographic description of cannabis use in a Canadian Inuit settlement. Cannabis is pervasive in Inuit communities, and both Inuit and public health authorities see it as a serious health and social problem. There is a general understanding that Inuit smoke cannabis to cope with stressors, but little investigation why Inuit choose cannabis instead of other options for managing stress. We describe how cannabis is a pathway throug…
An Ethnographic Model of Stress and Stress Management in Two Canadian Inuit Communities
As part of the first stage of a community-based participatory research project with two communities in the Canadian Arctic—Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik, and Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories—we conducted 57 interviews eliciting residents’ perceptions of pressing issues facing their communities, problems affecting health and wellbeing, and how researchers or other organized groups could help alleviate those problems. A recurrent theme that emerged during…
Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy
Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing
While management and network scholars have long asked why some groups adapt to innovation more readily than others, such questions have been surprisingly absent in studies of new media production. We offer a network analytical framework which relates producers’ informal networks to their capacity to adopt digital innovations. Through a network ethnography of 4264 romance writers, we find that established authors who reversed traditional advice pa…
Not so unusual Neanderthal bone tools: New examples from Abri Lartet, France
Market integration and cooperative resource harvesting among kin, clan, and neighbors in rural China
Non-timber forest products, such as wild mushrooms, are important in rural livelihoods worldwide. As resource pressures and environmental goals change, land tenure and harvesting arrangements also create novel conditions influencing local communities’ resource access. When commons governance encourages (or discourages) cooperative resource harvesting, this may also impact other social ties among community members. Attention to social relationship…
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences
OBJECTIVES: With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, we draw on the literature and our own experiences to make recommendations for how EBAs can engage broader audiences, in…
“All the problems in the community are multifaceted and related to each other”: Inuit concerns in an era of climate change
OBJECTIVE: Human dimensions of climate change research in the Arctic often proposes ways for local communities to adapt to changes to their environment, foregrounding problems posed by climate change while treating social, political, and economic factors as background conditions. We explore the relevance of this research paradigm for Inuit by examining how Inuit from Kangiqsujuaq present and discuss the major issues facing their community. METHOD…
Want climate‐change adaptation? Evolutionary theory can help
The idea of adaptation, in which an organism or population becomes better suited to its environment, is used in a variety of disciplines. Originating in evolutionary biology, adaptation has been a central theme in biological anthropology and human ecology. More recently, the study of adaptation in the context of climate change has become an important topic of research in the social sciences. While there are clearly commonalities in the different …
Human behavioral ecology and niche construction
We examine the relationship between niche construction theory (NCT) and human behavioral ecology (HBE), two branches of evolutionary science that are important sources of theory in archeology. We distinguish between formal models of niche construction as an evolutionary process, and uses of niche construction to refer to a kind of human behavior. Formal models from NCT examine how environmental modification can change the selection pressures that…
A refitting experiment on long bone identification
Refitting is an important analytical tool in archaeology that can yield valuable information on site formation processes and on the range of activities practiced at a site, including tool production, tool curation, and discard behavior, among others. In the present paper, we use refit data from a control assemblage of red deer ( Cervus elaphus ) long bones to assess problems of specimen identification and representation in an experiment where bon…
Measuring reciprocity: Double sampling, concordance, and network construction
Reciprocity—the mutual provisioning of support/goods—is a pervasive feature of social life. Directed networks provide a way to examine the structure of reciprocity in a community. However, measuring social networks involves assumptions about what relationships matter and how to elicit them, which may impact observed reciprocity. In particular, the practice of aggregating multiple sources of data on the same relationship (e.g., “double-sampled” da…
Comparing Social Network Structures Generated through Sociometric and Ethnographic Methods
Social connections between individuals are often an important source of information for both quantitative and qualitative anthropological research. Here, we seek to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of sociometric and ethnographic representations of social connections. We do this by comparing network data collected using a sociometric technique (a name generator) with a network drawn by project ethnographers representing their unde…
The Number of Distinct Elements: Extending a landmark-based counting unit to other taxa
Preliminary analysis of faunal remains from three Middle Paleolithic deposits in Charente, France
Who, Being Loved, is Poor: Poverty, Marriage, and Changing Family Structures in the Canadian Arctic
In Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik, household composition has changed drastically over the past half-century. Although the cooperative division of labor between married couples was a cornerstone of the traditional Inuit economy, a large proportion of households in Kangiqsujuaq today are headed by single women with dependents. Examination of factors associated with marriage at the individual level and of patterns of wage labor participation within household…
Rethinking "Big Problems" in Arctic Health
Author: Ready, Elspeth et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2018-01; Keywords: health and well-being, Arctic health, Inuit health, mixed methods, stress, cultural change, health outcomes, decolonization, decolonized approaches; Title: Rethinking “big problems” in Arctic health
The social significance of subtle signals
Building Bigness: Reputation, Prominence, and Social Capital in Rural South India
Anthropologists have long been concerned with how reputations help people gain the support of others. Here, we study the support ties among adult residents of two Tamil villages, asking how reputational standing in each village mediates access to social support. We find that a reputation for influence has the weakest effect on support ties with others, while a reputation for generosity has the strongest. Further, a reputation for influence is not…
Why Wage Earners Hunt: Food Sharing, Social Structure, and Influence in an Arctic Mixed Economy
Food sharing has been a central focus of research in human behavioral ecology and anthropology more broadly. Studies of food sharing have typically focused on either the individual's motivations to share or the social formations and value systems that sharing produces. Here, we employ social network analysis to do both, investigating how strategic economic decisions, such as decisions about sharing, are embedded in and feed back onto social struc…
Why subsistence matters
Subsistence, including hunting, sharing the proceeds of the hunt, and the social relations associated with these activities, is central to Inuit life. Here I synthesise my previous research on food security, economics, hunting and sharing in Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik, tracing some of the pathways that connect traditional harvesting and sharing with political, economic and social life in the settlement today. The results reveal that some of the most f…
Challenges in the Assessment of Inuit Food Security
In the past few years, food security survey modules have been widely used to assess Inuit food access. However, these modules were not originally designed for use in mixed economies where both purchased and country (hunted, fished, and gathered) foods contribute to peoples’ diets. These methods have been extensively tested and modified for use in Alaska, but research conducted in the Canadian Arctic has not been rigorously evaluated. This paper e…
Problems of Identification and Quantification in Archaeozoological Analysis, Part II: Presentation of an Alternative Counting Method
Problems of Identification and Quantification in Archaeozoological Analysis, Part I: Insights from a Blind Test
Problems of Identification and Quantification in Archaeozoological Analysis, Part I: Insights from a Blind Test
Why Wage Earners Hunt: Food Sharing, Social Structure, and Influence in an Arctic Mixed Economy
Food sharing has been a central focus of research in human behavioral ecology and anthropology more broadly. Studies of food sharing have typically focused on either the individual's motivations to share or the social formations and value systems that sharing produces. Here, we employ social network analysis to do both, investigating how strategic economic decisions, such as decisions about sharing, are embedded in and feed back onto social struc…
Problems of Identification and Quantification in Archaeozoological Analysis, Part II: Presentation of an Alternative Counting Method
Building Bigness: Reputation, Prominence, and Social Capital in Rural South India
Anthropologists have long been concerned with how reputations help people gain the support of others. Here, we study the support ties among adult residents of two Tamil villages, asking how reputational standing in each village mediates access to social support. We find that a reputation for influence has the weakest effect on support ties with others, while a reputation for generosity has the strongest. Further, a reputation for influence is not…
Neandertal foraging during the late Mousterian in the Pyrenees: New insights based on faunal remains from Gatzarria Cave
The social significance of subtle signals
Not so unusual Neanderthal bone tools: New examples from Abri Lartet, France
Measuring reciprocity: Double sampling, concordance, and network construction
Reciprocity—the mutual provisioning of support/goods—is a pervasive feature of social life. Directed networks provide a way to examine the structure of reciprocity in a community. However, measuring social networks involves assumptions about what relationships matter and how to elicit them, which may impact observed reciprocity. In particular, the practice of aggregating multiple sources of data on the same relationship (e.g., “double-sampled” da…
Comparing Social Network Structures Generated through Sociometric and Ethnographic Methods
Social connections between individuals are often an important source of information for both quantitative and qualitative anthropological research. Here, we seek to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of sociometric and ethnographic representations of social connections. We do this by comparing network data collected using a sociometric technique (a name generator) with a network drawn by project ethnographers representing their unde…
Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing
While management and network scholars have long asked why some groups adapt to innovation more readily than others, such questions have been surprisingly absent in studies of new media production. We offer a network analytical framework which relates producers’ informal networks to their capacity to adopt digital innovations. Through a network ethnography of 4264 romance writers, we find that established authors who reversed traditional advice pa…
Rethinking "Big Problems" in Arctic Health
Author: Ready, Elspeth et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2018-01; Keywords: health and well-being, Arctic health, Inuit health, mixed methods, stress, cultural change, health outcomes, decolonization, decolonized approaches; Title: Rethinking “big problems” in Arctic health
Neandertal foraging during the late Mousterian in the Pyrenees: New insights based on faunal remains from Gatzarria Cave
Foraging Goals and Transport Decisions in Western Europe during the Paleolithic and Early Holocene
Challenges in the Assessment of Inuit Food Security
In the past few years, food security survey modules have been widely used to assess Inuit food access. However, these modules were not originally designed for use in mixed economies where both purchased and country (hunted, fished, and gathered) foods contribute to peoples’ diets. These methods have been extensively tested and modified for use in Alaska, but research conducted in the Canadian Arctic has not been rigorously evaluated. This paper e…
Problems of Identification and Quantification in Archaeozoological Analysis, Part II: Presentation of an Alternative Counting Method
Problems of Identification and Quantification in Archaeozoological Analysis, Part I: Insights from a Blind Test
Why subsistence matters
Subsistence, including hunting, sharing the proceeds of the hunt, and the social relations associated with these activities, is central to Inuit life. Here I synthesise my previous research on food security, economics, hunting and sharing in Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik, tracing some of the pathways that connect traditional harvesting and sharing with political, economic and social life in the settlement today. The results reveal that some of the most f…
Who, Being Loved, is Poor: Poverty, Marriage, and Changing Family Structures in the Canadian Arctic
In Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik, household composition has changed drastically over the past half-century. Although the cooperative division of labor between married couples was a cornerstone of the traditional Inuit economy, a large proportion of households in Kangiqsujuaq today are headed by single women with dependents. Examination of factors associated with marriage at the individual level and of patterns of wage labor participation within household…
Rethinking "Big Problems" in Arctic Health
Author: Ready, Elspeth et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 2018-01; Keywords: health and well-being, Arctic health, Inuit health, mixed methods, stress, cultural change, health outcomes, decolonization, decolonized approaches; Title: Rethinking “big problems” in Arctic health
The social significance of subtle signals
Building Bigness: Reputation, Prominence, and Social Capital in Rural South India
Anthropologists have long been concerned with how reputations help people gain the support of others. Here, we study the support ties among adult residents of two Tamil villages, asking how reputational standing in each village mediates access to social support. We find that a reputation for influence has the weakest effect on support ties with others, while a reputation for generosity has the strongest. Further, a reputation for influence is not…
Why Wage Earners Hunt: Food Sharing, Social Structure, and Influence in an Arctic Mixed Economy
Food sharing has been a central focus of research in human behavioral ecology and anthropology more broadly. Studies of food sharing have typically focused on either the individual's motivations to share or the social formations and value systems that sharing produces. Here, we employ social network analysis to do both, investigating how strategic economic decisions, such as decisions about sharing, are embedded in and feed back onto social struc…
The Number of Distinct Elements: Extending a landmark-based counting unit to other taxa
Preliminary analysis of faunal remains from three Middle Paleolithic deposits in Charente, France
Comparing Social Network Structures Generated through Sociometric and Ethnographic Methods
Social connections between individuals are often an important source of information for both quantitative and qualitative anthropological research. Here, we seek to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of sociometric and ethnographic representations of social connections. We do this by comparing network data collected using a sociometric technique (a name generator) with a network drawn by project ethnographers representing their unde…
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences
OBJECTIVES: With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, we draw on the literature and our own experiences to make recommendations for how EBAs can engage broader audiences, in…
“All the problems in the community are multifaceted and related to each other”: Inuit concerns in an era of climate change
OBJECTIVE: Human dimensions of climate change research in the Arctic often proposes ways for local communities to adapt to changes to their environment, foregrounding problems posed by climate change while treating social, political, and economic factors as background conditions. We explore the relevance of this research paradigm for Inuit by examining how Inuit from Kangiqsujuaq present and discuss the major issues facing their community. METHOD…
Want climate‐change adaptation? Evolutionary theory can help
The idea of adaptation, in which an organism or population becomes better suited to its environment, is used in a variety of disciplines. Originating in evolutionary biology, adaptation has been a central theme in biological anthropology and human ecology. More recently, the study of adaptation in the context of climate change has become an important topic of research in the social sciences. While there are clearly commonalities in the different …
Human behavioral ecology and niche construction
We examine the relationship between niche construction theory (NCT) and human behavioral ecology (HBE), two branches of evolutionary science that are important sources of theory in archeology. We distinguish between formal models of niche construction as an evolutionary process, and uses of niche construction to refer to a kind of human behavior. Formal models from NCT examine how environmental modification can change the selection pressures that…
A refitting experiment on long bone identification
Refitting is an important analytical tool in archaeology that can yield valuable information on site formation processes and on the range of activities practiced at a site, including tool production, tool curation, and discard behavior, among others. In the present paper, we use refit data from a control assemblage of red deer ( Cervus elaphus ) long bones to assess problems of specimen identification and representation in an experiment where bon…
Measuring reciprocity: Double sampling, concordance, and network construction
Reciprocity—the mutual provisioning of support/goods—is a pervasive feature of social life. Directed networks provide a way to examine the structure of reciprocity in a community. However, measuring social networks involves assumptions about what relationships matter and how to elicit them, which may impact observed reciprocity. In particular, the practice of aggregating multiple sources of data on the same relationship (e.g., “double-sampled” da…
Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy
Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing
While management and network scholars have long asked why some groups adapt to innovation more readily than others, such questions have been surprisingly absent in studies of new media production. We offer a network analytical framework which relates producers’ informal networks to their capacity to adopt digital innovations. Through a network ethnography of 4264 romance writers, we find that established authors who reversed traditional advice pa…
Not so unusual Neanderthal bone tools: New examples from Abri Lartet, France
Market integration and cooperative resource harvesting among kin, clan, and neighbors in rural China
Non-timber forest products, such as wild mushrooms, are important in rural livelihoods worldwide. As resource pressures and environmental goals change, land tenure and harvesting arrangements also create novel conditions influencing local communities’ resource access. When commons governance encourages (or discourages) cooperative resource harvesting, this may also impact other social ties among community members. Attention to social relationship…
An Ethnographic Model of Stress and Stress Management in Two Canadian Inuit Communities
As part of the first stage of a community-based participatory research project with two communities in the Canadian Arctic—Kangiqsujuaq, Nunavik, and Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories—we conducted 57 interviews eliciting residents’ perceptions of pressing issues facing their communities, problems affecting health and wellbeing, and how researchers or other organized groups could help alleviate those problems. A recurrent theme that emerged during…
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