Current research summary

Detailed map of Tsimane study villages


publications:

Gurven, M., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Bowles, S., Hooper, Paul L., Kaplan, H., Quinlan, R., Sear, R., Schniter, E., von Rueden, C., Bell, A., and Hertz, T. (forthcoming). Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Horticulturalists. Current Anthropology

2009. Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Bowles, S., Hertz, T., Bell, A., Beise, J., Clark, G., Fazzio, I., Gurven, M., Hill, K., Hooper, P.L. Irons, W., Kaplan, H., Leonetti, D., Low, B., Marlowe, F., McElreath, R., Naidu, S., Nolin, D., Piraino, P., Quinlan, R., Schniter, E., Sear, R., Shenk, M., Smith, E., von Rueden, C., and Wiessner, P. Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies. Science. 326:682-688

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2008. Gurven, M., Zanolini, A., Schniter, E. Culture sometimes matter: intra-cultural variation in pro-social behavior among Tsimane Amerindians. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 67:587-607

2008. Schniter, E. “Shuar” in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd ed. (pp. 835-836) C. Scribner’s Sons: New York.

 

dissertation:

2009. Why Old Age: Non-material contributions and patterns of aging among older adult Tsimane'.

thesis for master's of science:

2001. The evolution of yawning: Why do we yawn and why is it contagious?

 

eric schniter

scientist with the
Tsimane' Health and Life
History Project

eschniter (at) gmail

curriculum vitae

 


courses taught:

Anthropology 109:
Human Universals.

Course syllabus

Anthropology 107:
Psychological Anthropology.

Course syllabus

 

 

affiliations:

Human Behavioral Ecology Lab

The UNM-UCSB Tsimane' Health
and Life History Project

The Inheritance of Inequality in
Premodern Societies Project

Center for Evolutionary Psychology