Christopher R. von Rueden
Post-Doctoral Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Anthropology,
University of California Santa Barbara
Affiliations:
- UNM-UCSB Tsimane Project (Dr. Michael Gurven and Dr. Hillard Kaplan)
- UCSB Human Behavioral Ecology Lab (Dr. Michael Gurven)
- Center for Evolutionary Psychology (Dr. John Tooby and Dr. Leda Cosmides)
- AHRC Culture & the Mind Project (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Inheritance of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies Workgroup (Santa Fe Institute)
- Human Behavior and Evolution Society
- Evolutionary Anthropology Society
- American Anthropological Association
I study male social status in small-scale human societies. My research investigates (1) how status is acquired over the life-course, (2) the reproductive and health consequences of status, and (3) the effects of socio-ecological change on status inequality. My empirical work focuses on the Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia. I am also investigating leadership and its role in collective action among the Tsimane.
Publications:
Comment on F. Guala "Reciprocity: Weak or Strong?" (pg. 43)
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Why do men seek status? Fitness payoffs to dominance and prestige ............... 2011
von Rueden, C., M. Gurven, & H. Kaplan
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Adaptations in humans for assessing physical strength from the voice .............. 2010
Sell,
A., G. Bryant, L. Cosmides, J. Tooby, D. Sznycer, C. von Rueden, A. Krauss,
& M. Gurven
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Domestication alone does not lead to inequality .............................................. 2010
Gurven,
M., M. Borgerhoff Mulder, S. Bowles, P. Hooper, H. Kaplan, R. Quinlan, R. Sear,
E. Schniter, ............C. von Rueden, A. Bell,
& T. Hertz
Current Anthropology
- Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality .............. 2009
Borgerhoff
Mulder, M., S. Bowles, T. Hertz, A. Bell, J. Beise, G. Clark, I. Fazzio, M.
Gurven, K. Hill, .............P. Hooper, W.
Irons, H. Kaplan, D. Leonetti, B. Low, F. Marlowe, R. McElreath, S. Naidu, D.
Nolin, ...........P. Piraino, R. Quinlan, E.
Schniter, R. Sear, M. Shenk, E.A. Smith, C. von Rueden, & P. Wiessner
Science
- A bioeconomic approach to marriage and the sexual division of labor ................ 2009
Gurven,
M., J. Winking, H. Kaplan, C. von Rueden, & L. McAllister
Human Nature
Sell,
A., J. Tooby, L. Cosmides, D. Sznycer, C. von Rueden, & M. Gurven
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- The multiple dimensions of male social status in an Amazonian society ............. 2008
von Rueden, C., M. Gurven, & H. Kaplan
Evolution and Human Behavior
- Hunting, social status, and biological fitness ................................................... 2006
Gurven, M. & C. von Rueden
Social Biology
- Evolution of brain size and juvenile periods in primates .................................... 2006
Walker, R., O. Burger, J.
Wagner, & C. von Rueden
Journal of Human Evolution
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