Document Type
Contribution to Books
Publication Date
2018
Abstract
The sustainability of indigenous communities in the Arctic, and the vulnerable households within, is in large part dependent on their continuing food security. A social food-sharing network within the Ust’-Avam community on the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Siberia is analyzed for underlying patterns of resilience and key evolutionarily stable strategies supporting cooperative behavior. Factors influencing the network include interhousehold relatedness, reciprocal sharing, and interaction effects. Social association also influences sharing. Evidence for multiple determinants of food sharing in this sample is discussed in reference to major evolutionary hypotheses and comparable studies. In sum, the findings illustrate the robustness of self-organizing distribution networks in an economic context of uncertainty.
Copyright Statement
This version of the article has been accepted for publication and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74295-3_10
Publication Information
Ziker, John P. and Fulk, Karen S. (2018). "Indigenous Siberian Food Sharing Networks: Social Innovation in a Transforming Economy". In F. Grippa, J. Leitão, J. Gluesing, K. Riopelle, and P. Gloor (Eds.), Collaborative Innovation Networks: Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations (Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics' series, pp. 117-127). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74295-3_10
Comments
Collaborative Innovation Networks: Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations is part of the Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics (ESID) book series.