Cooperation and Collective Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cooperation and Collective Action write by David M. Carballo. This book was released on 2012-12-15. Cooperation and Collective Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to 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 one of the few great conundrums within 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 of complex societies through the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research.
The Archaeology of Collective Action
The Archaeology of Collective Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology of Collective Action write by Dean J. Saitta. This book was released on 2007. The Archaeology of Collective Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dean Saitta examines archaeology's success in reconstructing collective social actions of the past - mass protests, labor strikes, slave uprisings on plantations - and considers the implications of such reconstructions for society today. Framing key issues and definitions in a clear and accessible style, Saitta reviews some of the progress archaeologists have made in illuminating race-, gender-, and class-based forms of collective action and how those actions have shaped the American experience. Saitta argues that archaeology is not only a source of historical truth but also a comment on the contemporary human condition.
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States
Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States write by Richard Blanton. This book was released on 2008. Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-Modern States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthropological archaeology and other disciplines concerned with the formation of early complex societies are undergoing a theoretical shift. Given the need for new directions in theory, the book proposes that anthropologists look to political science, especially the rational choice theory of collective action. The authors subject collective action theory to a methodologically rigorous evaluation using systematic cross-cultural analysis based on a world-wide sample of societies.
Connected Communities
Connected Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Connected Communities write by Matthew A. Peeples. This book was released on 2018-02-20. Connected Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New insights into how and why social identities formed and changed in the prehistoric past--Provided by publisher.
Cooperation and Collective Action
Cooperation and Collective Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cooperation and Collective Action write by David M. Carballo. This book was released on 2012-12-15. Cooperation and Collective Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[Cooperation research] is one of the busiest and most exciting areas of transdisciplinary science right now, linking evolution, ecology and social science. . . this is the first major work or collection to address linkages between archaeology and cooperation research."—Michael E. Smith, Arizona State University 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, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to 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 one of the few great conundrums within 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 of complex societies through the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research.
