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This dissertation presents a quantitative study of food sharing in the Indonesian fishing and whaling village of Lamalera, Indonesia. The objective is to test hypotheses derived from the anthropological field of human behavioral ecology about the adaptive nature of human food sh…

Conflict resolution efforts seek to de-escalate conflict dynamics to bring conciliation and/or reconciliation to a conflict. One strategy to de-escalate a conflict is to use food during conflict resolution efforts. So, what specifically does consuming food and beverage do to bre…