Grass-roots Justice in Tanzania
By Brian Paciotti, Craig Hadley, Christopher Holmes, Monique Mulder
Cultural evolution and game theory help to explain how a history of cooperation influences the success of social organizations
This Article From Issue
January-February 2005
Volume 93, Number 1
Page 58
DOI: 10.1511/2005.51.58
In a remote village of Tanzania one day in 1998, members of an ethnic group called the Sukuma gathered for a hearing on a social transgression. The local leader of this culture's justice organization—called the Sungusungu—had offered meat to a nonmember at an organizational feast.
Photograph courtesy of the authors
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