| PMC full text: | Curr Anthropol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 Feb 1. Published in final edited form as: Curr Anthropol. 2010 Feb; 51(1): 19–34. doi: 10.1086/648530 |
Table 5
Wealth transmission and inequality measures for hunter-gatherer populations.
| Population | Wealth type (N pairs) | Wealth class a | β transmission coefficient (s.e.) | P-value b | Gini coefficient (s.e.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ache | Hunting returns (49) | E | 0.081 (0.273) | 0.768 | 0.237 (0.014) |
| Tsimane | Hunting returns (26) | E | 0.384 (0.130) | 0.003 | 0.371 (0.037) |
| Hadza | Foraging returns (39) | E | 0.047 (0.193) | 0.808 | 0.339 (0.018) |
| Lamalera | Reprod. success (121) | E | 0.161 (0.174) | 0.355 | 0.296 (0.012) |
| Meriam | Reprod. success (91) | E | 0.088 (0.247) | 0.722 | 0.298 (0.024) |
| Hadza | Grip strength (196) | E | −0.044 (0.050) | 0.386 | 0.191 (0.006) |
| Ache | Weight (137) | E | 0.509 (0.128) | 0.000 | 0.064 (0.003) |
| Hadza | Weight (227) | E | 0.305 (0.076) | 0.000 | 0.079 (0.002) |
| Embodied averages | 0.164 (0.057) | 0.007 | 0.215 (0.045) | ||
| Lamalera | Boat shares (121) | M | 0.122 (0.093) | 0.190 | 0.474 (0.010) |
| Lamalera | Housing quality (121) | M | 0.218 (0.099) | 0.027 | 0.241 (0.007) |
| Material averages | 0.170 (0.106) | 0.119 | 0.357 (0.084) | ||
| Ju/’hoansi | Exchange partners (26) | R | 0.208 (0.114) | 0.067 | 0.216 (0.028) |
| Lamalera | Sharing partners (119) | R | 0.251 (0.052) | 0.000 | 0.263 (0.010) |
| Relational averages | 0.229 (0.106) | 0.038 | 0.229 (0.106) | ||
| Overall averagesc | 0.19 (0.05) | 0.001 | 0.19 (0.05) |
a“E” = embodied wealth; “M” = material wealth; “R” = relational wealth (see text for explanation).
bP-values calculated from two-tailed tests of hypothesis that true β for a given wealth type or class equals zero.
cOverall averages computed from the wealth-class averages, weighted by importance (α) of each wealth class (see Table 4).