BetaBetaDataset
To test whether market involvement buffers several types of risk and reduces traditional sharing behavior among Tsimane Amerindians of the Bolivian Amazon.
Tsimane are forager-horticulturalists living in over 100 small villages in the neotropics of central Bolivia. Their economy is based on swidden horticulture (plantains, manioc, rice and corn), hunting, fishing and fruit gathering. Closely related families co-reside in residential clusters of several households, which act as units of cooperative production and consumption. Tsimane have relatively short life expectancy, high work load, and minimal access to modern amenities such as healthcare, sanitation and electricity. Their lives are rife with risk at all ages due to food shortage, illness, injury, kin and partner death, conflict and theft. For example, 45% of hunting events end in failure,
HTML tables with summaries on households' wealth, shocks and resilience, predictors of village-level sharing.
Survey of 119 households