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Kinship, lineage, and an evolutionary perspective on cooperative hunting groups in Indonesia

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Work was conducted among traditional, subsistence whale hunters in Lamalera, Indonesia, in order to test if strict biological kinship or lineage membership is more important for explaining the organization of cooperative hunting parties ranging in size from 8 to 14 men. Crew identifications were collected for all 853 hunts that occurred between May 3 and August 5, 1999. Lineage identity and genetic relatedness were determined for a sample of 189 hunters. Results of matrix regression show that genetic kinship explains little of the hunters’ affiliations independent of lineage identity. Crew members are much more closely related to each other than expected by chance, but this is due to the correlation between lineage membership and genetic kinship. Lineage members are much more likely to affiliate in crews, but kin with r<0.5 are just as likely not to affiliate. The results are discussed vis-à-vis the evolution of cooperation and group identity.

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Michael Alvard is an associate professor of anthropology at Texas A & M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1993. He has worked in Amazonian Peru with Piro and Machiguenga Indians; with Wana blowgun hunters and trappers in central Sulawesi, Indonesia; and recently with the Lamalera whale hunters of Lembata, Indonesia.

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Alvard, M.S. Kinship, lineage, and an evolutionary perspective on cooperative hunting groups in Indonesia. Hum Nat 14, 129–163 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-003-1001-5

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