ABSTRACT With a focus on Melanesia, game theory is used to model the logical structure of strategic interactions between actors who engage in exchange transactions and to identify paradoxes, opportunities and uncertainties that confront those actors. It is argued that these exchanges are of three types which are named sharing, barter‐trade and prestige‐service. The first has the form of the classic game known as Prisoner's Dilemma and the expectation of non‐cooperation inherent in this game is resolved ...
Tópico(s): Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
2000 - Wiley | Oceania
... English, ya’aburnee is similar to the word mamihlapinatapai, from the nearly extinct Yaghan indigenous language once ...
2023 - University of Oklahoma | World Literature Today