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The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar
The extent of inequality in material wealth across different types of societies is well established. Less clear, however, is how material wealth is associated with relational wealth, and the implications of such associations for material wealth inequality. Theory and evidence suggest that material w...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10291434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37381854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0288 |
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author | Redhead, Daniel Maliti, Emmanuel Andrews, Jeffrey B. Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique |
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description | The extent of inequality in material wealth across different types of societies is well established. Less clear, however, is how material wealth is associated with relational wealth, and the implications of such associations for material wealth inequality. Theory and evidence suggest that material wealth both guides, and is patterned by, relational wealth. While existing comparative studies typically assume complementarity between different types of wealth, such associations may differ for distinct kinds of relational wealth. Here, we first review the literature to identify how and why different forms of relational wealth may align. We then turn to an analysis of household-level social networks (food sharing, gender-specific friendship and gender-specific co-working networks) and material wealth data from a rural community in Pemba, Zanzibar. We find that (i) the materially wealthy have most relational ties, (ii) the associations between relational and material wealth—as well as relational wealth more generally—are patterned by gender differences, and (iii) different forms of relational wealth have similar structural properties and are closely aligned. More broadly, we show how examining the patterning of distinct types of relational wealth provides insights into how and why inequality in material wealth remains muted in a community undergoing rapid economic change. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Evolutionary ecology of inequality’. |
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spelling | pubmed-102914342023-06-27 The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar Redhead, Daniel Maliti, Emmanuel Andrews, Jeffrey B. Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Articles The extent of inequality in material wealth across different types of societies is well established. Less clear, however, is how material wealth is associated with relational wealth, and the implications of such associations for material wealth inequality. Theory and evidence suggest that material wealth both guides, and is patterned by, relational wealth. While existing comparative studies typically assume complementarity between different types of wealth, such associations may differ for distinct kinds of relational wealth. Here, we first review the literature to identify how and why different forms of relational wealth may align. We then turn to an analysis of household-level social networks (food sharing, gender-specific friendship and gender-specific co-working networks) and material wealth data from a rural community in Pemba, Zanzibar. We find that (i) the materially wealthy have most relational ties, (ii) the associations between relational and material wealth—as well as relational wealth more generally—are patterned by gender differences, and (iii) different forms of relational wealth have similar structural properties and are closely aligned. More broadly, we show how examining the patterning of distinct types of relational wealth provides insights into how and why inequality in material wealth remains muted in a community undergoing rapid economic change. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Evolutionary ecology of inequality’. The Royal Society 2023-08-14 2023-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10291434/ /pubmed/37381854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0288 Text en © 2023 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Redhead, Daniel Maliti, Emmanuel Andrews, Jeffrey B. Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar |
title | The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar |
title_full | The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar |
title_fullStr | The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar |
title_full_unstemmed | The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar |
title_short | The interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in Pemba, Zanzibar |
title_sort | interdependence of relational and material wealth inequality in pemba, zanzibar |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10291434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37381854 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0288 |
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