This paper explores how small group sharing practices contribute to wider community hierarchies. Using a combination of qualitative, quantitative and network data, the paper shows how small group reciprocal practices overlap to generate key nodes within community scale networks, creating hierarchies and information inequalities in each site. Thus, the paper aims to draw closer conceptual linkages between close knit, “bonding” relationships, livelihoods and community hierarchy by emphasising how reciprocal risk mitigation practices function as an intermediary process between climate‐dependent livelihoods and power relations within community‐scale networks. By applying this broader, mixed methods interpretation of gift giving and reciprocity to an area usually interpreted with a single scalar and methodological approach, the paper makes a case for greater focus on the structural dimensions of giving and reciprocity in geography.

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作为一种整体的社会现象：走向互惠的人文地理

本文探讨了小组共享实践如何促进更广泛的社区层次结构。通过使用定性，定量和网络数据的组合，本文显示了小组互惠实践如何重叠以在社区规模网络内生成关键节点，从而在每个站点中创建层次结构和信息不平等。因此，本文旨在通过强调互惠风险缓解措施如何在依赖气候的生计和社区规模网络中的权力关系之间起中介作用，在紧密的联系，“纽带”关系，生计和社区等级之间建立更紧密的概念联系。通过在通常用单一标量和方法论方法解释的领域中应用赠与和互惠性的这种更广泛的混合方法解释，