Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 124-134 , March 2007

Signaling by consumption in a native Amazonian society

  • Ricardo Godoy

      Affiliations

    • Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. Tel.: +1 781 736 2784 2770; fax: +1 781 736 2774.
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  • Victoria Reyes-García

      Affiliations

    • Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA
    • ICREA and Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambiental, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Tomás Huanca

      Affiliations

    • Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA
    • ,
  • William R. Leonard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
    • ,
  • Thomas McDade

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
    • ,
  • Susan Tanner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
    • ,
  • Vincent Vadez

      Affiliations

    • Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA
    • ,
  • Craig Seyfried

      Affiliations

    • Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA

Received 22 February 2006 ,Accepted 18 August 2006.

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☆ Research was funded by grants from the programs of Biological and Cultural Anthropology of the National Science Foundation (0134225, 0200767, and 0322380).

PII: S1090-5138(06)00072-9

doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2006.08.005

Evolution & Human Behavior
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 124-134 , March 2007

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