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I received my
doctorate in
anthropology from
the University of
California-Santa
Barbara in 1978.
Most of my research is on native peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon (Yanomamö &
Ye'kwana) with funding from the NSF, LSB Leakey Foundation, and Harry Frank
Guggenheim Foundation.
My research
interests are in
behavioral ecology,
food & labor
exchange, human
ecology, marriage,
kin and parental
investment, and
Amazonia. I
regularly teach
courses on social
structure,
contentious issues
in anthropology,
warfare, and
introductory
cultural
anthropology.
I am also the chair
of the anthropology
department,
consulting editor for Human
Nature, and serve
as treasurer of the
Human Behavior and
Evolution Society.
Some Recent Manuscripts and
Publications
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Ye'kwana Behavioral and Locational Data Base Visit this experimental web page devoted to analyzing quantitative data
Amazonian village behavior and location in a Ye'kwana village
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Birth Order, Sibling
Investment, and Fertility among the Ju/'hoansi (!Kung) (Patricia Draper, first author)
Human Nature
Vol. 11, No. 2: 117-156 (2000)
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Parental Investment and Child Health in a Yanomamö Village Suffering
Short-term
Food Stress.
Edward H. Hagen Raymond B. Hames, Nathan M. Craig, Matthew
T. Lauer, Michael E. Price
Journal of Biosocial Sciences (2001)
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Human
Behavioral Ecology International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Pergamon, Oxford. Pp. 6946-695 (2001)
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The Nexus of Yanomamö
Growth, Health, and Demography In Lost Paradises and the Ethics of Research and Publication
Salzano and Hurtado, eds. Oxford University Press. Pp. 110-146. (With
Jennifer Kuzara) (2004)
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Women's work, child care and helpers at the nest in a hunter-gatherer society. (With Patricia Draper) Human Nature,
Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 319-341 (2004)
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Growth
rates and life histories in 22 small-scale societies
(Robert Walker senior author with 12 co-authors!)
American Journal of Human Biology
18:295–311 (2006)
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Meal Sharing
among the Ye'kwana (With Carl McCabe)Human Nature 18 (1):1-22 (2007)
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The Ecologically Noble Savage Debate
Annual Review of
Anthropology 36 (2007)
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Paolisso, M. and
R. Hames
"Methods for the
Systematic Study
of Human
Behavior,
Field Methods
(in press).
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“Production
Decisions and
Time
Allocation”.
In Society and
Environment:
Methods and
Research Design.
Vaccaro, Ismael
, Eric Alden
Smith and
Shankar Aswani
(eds.)
Cambridge
University
Press.
(in press)
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Grandparental transfers and kin selection”. Invited and reviewed commentary on
D. Coall and R. Hertwig “Grandparental Investment: Past, Present, and Future”.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (in press)
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