The Food Sharing Debate: A Case Study from Siberia

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Michael Schnegg, University of Cologne, for assistance with the social network analysis. This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Arctic Social Science Program (OPP 9528936), a research fellowship from the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of State, Program for Scientific Research in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe (Title VIII), and a research grant from the American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR). The Leakey Foundation sponsored the analysis of the data for this article. I prepared the article while I was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. The statements and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Leakey Foundation, any of the other funding agencies, or the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.