Cooperation & collective action

Cooperation & collective action: archaeological perspectives

by Carballo, David M.

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Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under-theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, and evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated that humans effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. This is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand co…

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  • Full title :Cooperation & collective action : archaeological perspectives / edited by David M. Carballo.

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Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under-theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, and evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated that humans effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. This is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand cooperation and collective action. Disentangling the motivations and institutions that foster group cooperation among competitive individuals remains a great conundrum in evolutionary theory. The breadth and material focus of archaeology provide a much-needed complement to existing research on cooperation and collective action, which thus far has relied largely on game-theoretic modeling, surveys of college students from affluent countries, brief ethnographic experiments, and limited historic cases. In this book, diverse case studies address the evolution of the emergence of norms, institutions, and symbols in complex societies over the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies and will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research. --

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  • Publication Date:2013

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 319 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781607322085, 1607322080, 1607321971, 9781607321972, 1457174103, 9781457174100
  • oclc:ocn847550225
  • LC Classification:GN799.C45
  • Dewey Decimal:306.3

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Theoretical perspectives -- Case studies.

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Anthropologie économique Anthropologie économique -- Études tran… Commerce préhistorique Commerce préhistorique -- Études transc… Commerce, Prehistoric Commerce, Prehistoric -- Cross-cultural… Cross-cultural studies Economic anthropology Economic anthropology -- Cross-cultural… SCIENCE -- Applied Sciences SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology

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Carballo, David M.

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