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Social Aggression and Resource Conflict Across the Female Life‐Course in the Bolivian Amazon
Author(s) -
Rucas Stacey L.,
Gurven Michael,
Winking Jeffrey,
Kaplan Hillard
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
aggressive behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.223
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1098-2337
pISSN - 0096-140X
DOI - 10.1002/ab.21420
Subject(s) - aggression , interpersonal communication , competition (biology) , life course approach , psychology , social psychology , social conflict , interpersonal relationship , resource (disambiguation) , reproduction , developmental psychology , political science , ecology , law , biology , computer network , politics , computer science
This work explores sources of conflict among forager‐horticulturalist women in A mazonian B olivia, and applies life history theory as a tool for understanding competitive and cooperative social networking behaviors among women. In this study, 121 T simane women and girls were interviewed regarding current and past disagreements with others in their community to identify categories of contested resources that instigate interpersonal conflicts, often resulting in incidences of social aggression. Analysis of frequency data on quarrels ( N = 334) reveals that women target several diverse categories of resources, with social types appearing as frequently as food and mates. It was also found that the focus of women's competition changes throughout the life‐course, consistent with the notion that current vs. future reproduction and quantity‐quality trade‐offs might have different influences on competition and social conflict over resources within women's social networks across different age groups. Aggr. Behav. 38:194–207, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.