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Rebecca Bliege Bird

Researcher at Pennsylvania State University

Publications -  78
Citations -  6136

Rebecca Bliege Bird is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Foraging & Fire regime. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 77 publications receiving 5197 citations. Previous affiliations of Rebecca Bliege Bird include University of Maine & University of Utah.

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Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital.

Rebecca Bliege Bird, +1 more
- 01 Apr 2005 - 
TL;DR: Signaling theory provides an opportunity to integrate an interactive theory of symbolic communication and social benefit with materialist theories of individual strategic action and adaptation as mentioned in this paper, and the potential explanatory value of signaling theory for a variety of anthropological topics.
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Turtle hunting and tombstone opening: public generosity as costly signaling

Eric Alden Smith, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2000 - 
TL;DR: Costly signaling theory (CST) offers an explanation of generosity and collective action that contrasts sharply with explanations based on conditional reciprocity as discussed by the authors, which makes it particularly relevant to situations involving widespread unconditional provisioning of collective goods.
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Showing off, handicap signaling, and the evolution of men's work

Kristen Hawkes, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2002 - 
TL;DR: The hypothesis that this unique male subsistence contribution may have evolved as hunting large animals became a focus of competitive display is explored.
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The hunting handicap: costly signaling in human foraging strategies

Rebecca Bliege Bird, +2 more
- 06 Jun 2001 - 
TL;DR: It is concluded that relatively inefficient hunting or sharing choices may be maintained in a population if they serve as costly and reliable signals designed to reveal the signaler's qualities to observers.
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People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

Erle C. Ellis, +20 more
- 27 Apr 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the most up-to-date, spatially explicit global reconstruction of historical human populations and land use to show that this paradigm is likely wrong.