Cooperation & collective action [electronic resource] : archaeological perspectives / edited by David M. Carballo.
Carballo, David M.
2013
GN799.C45 C67 2013eb
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Title Cooperation & collective action [electronic resource] : archaeological perspectives / edited by David M. Carballo.
ISBN 9781607321972 (hardback)
9781607322085 electronic book
Publication Details Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 2013.
Language English
Description x, 319 p. : ill.
Call Number GN799.C45 C67 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.3
Summary "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. Cooperation and Collective Action 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 Cooperation and Collective Action, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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pt. I. Theoretical perspectives
pt. II. Case studies.

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