Publications by authors named "Polly Wiessner"

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Definitions and cultural dynamics in understanding "societies".
Polly Wiessner

Behav Brain Sci· April 2025

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The deep history of imaginary worlds.
Polly Wiessner

Behav Brain Sci· November 2022

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A 44-y perspective on the influence of cash on Ju/'hoansi Bushman networks of sharing and gifting.
Polly Wiessner, Cindy Hsin-Yee Huang

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A· October 2022

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Understanding cultural clusters: An ethnographic perspective.
Polly Wiessner

Behav Brain Sci· September 2022

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When marital institutions break down: Impact and adaptation among the Enga of Papua New Guinea.
Polly Wiessner, Nitze Pupu

Evol Hum Sci· March 2021

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The role of third parties in norm enforcement in customary courts among the Enga of Papua New Guinea.
Polly Wiessner

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A· December 2020

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Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures.
Amber Wutich, Jessica Budds, Wendy Jepson, Leila Harris, Ellis Adams, Polly Wiessner

WIREs Water· September 2018

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Considering selection pressures for identity fusion and self-sacrifice in small-scale societies.
Polly Wiessner

Behav Brain Sci· January 2018

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Culture matters for life history trade-offs.
Polly Wiessner

Behav Brain Sci· January 2017

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Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen.
Polly W Wiessner

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A· September 2014

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Toward peace: foreign arms and indigenous institutions in a Papua New Guinea society.
Polly Wiessner, Nitze Pupu

Science· September 2012

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Perspectives from ethnography on weak and strong reciprocity.
Polly Wiessner

Behav Brain Sci· February 2012

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Co-residence patterns in hunter-gatherer societies show unique human social structure.
Kim R Hill, Robert S Walker, Miran Bozicević, James Eder, Thomas Headland, Polly Wiessner

Science· March 2011

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Wealth transmission and inequality among hunter-gatherers.
Eric Alden Smith, Kim Hill, Frank Marlowe, David Nolin, Polly Wiessner

Curr Anthropol· February 2010

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Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies.
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Samuel Bowles, Tom Hertz, Adrian Bell, Jan Beise, Polly Wiessner

Science· October 2009

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Norm enforcement among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen : A case of strong reciprocity?
Polly Wiessner

Hum Nat· June 2005

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Understanding culture across species.
Richard W Byrne, Philip J Barnard, Iain Davidson, Vincent M Janik, William C McGrew, Polly Wiessner

Trends Cogn Sci· August 2004

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