The evolution of human co-operation ritual and social complexity in stateless societies

How do people living in small groups without money, markets, police and rigid social classes develop norms of economic and social cooperation that are sustainable over time? This book addresses this fundamental question and explains the origin, structure and spread of stateless societies. Using insi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Stanish, Charles, 1956- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2017.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39826995*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The evolution of human cooperation
  • Economic anthropology of stateless societies: the rise and fall of homo economicus
  • Conditional cooperators: the evolutionary game theory revolution
  • The role of coercion in social theory
  • The ritualized economy: how people in stateless societies cooperate
  • An anthropological game theory model for the evolution of ritualized economies
  • The evolution of ritualized economies: the archaeological evidence
  • Epilogue: no beans, no Jesus.