Gardening and Redistributing Skills

Areal picture of an uncontacted indigenous person in the Amazon

Successful big-men are skilled at organizing labor and redistributing its procedes.

They rarely live better than others, and they are unable to pass their positions to offspring, however, they do gain prestige.

They must balance carefully between the needs and wants of old and new followers and must understand the nature and limits of their power in order to use it effectively.

Next: Do big-men have power? How much and from where?