Cooperation in Chinese communities. Morality and practice
by Bell, Eona Judd, Ellen R. Stafford, Charles
When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions concerning human nature and the nature of cooperation. 0The editors present a wide range of anthropological case studies focused on everyday cooperation in Chines…
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- Full title :Cooperation in Chinese communities. Morality and practice. / Charles Stafford; Ellen R. Judd; Eona Bell.
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When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions concerning human nature and the nature of cooperation. 0The editors present a wide range of anthropological case studies focused on everyday cooperation in Chinese communities, for example, between children in Nanjing playing a ballgame; parents in Edinburgh organising a community school; villagers in Yunnan dealing with "common pool" resource problems; and families in Kinmen in Taiwan worshipping their dead together. 0On the one hand, these case studies illustrate some uniquely Chinese cultural factors, such as those related to kinship ideals and institutions that shape the experience and practice of cooperation. They also illustrate, on the other hand, how China's recent history, not least the rise and fall of collectivism in various forms, continues to shape the experience of cooperation for ordinary people in China today. Finally, they show that in spite of the cultural and historical particularity of Chinese cooperation, it does share some underlying features that would be familiar to people coming from radically different backgrounds.
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- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:304 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781350077195, 1350077194
- oclc:on1107685804
- LC Classification:GN
- Dewey Decimal:301
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