02953nam a2200373 a 4500 ebr10642010 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 121109s2013 couad sb 001 0 eng d 2012038942 9781607321972 (hardback) 9781607322085 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)847550225 GN799.C45 C67 2013eb 306.3 23 Cooperation & collective action [electronic resource] : archaeological perspectives / edited by David M. Carballo. Cooperation and collective action : archaeological perspectives Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 2013. x, 319 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. pt. I. Theoretical perspectives -- pt. II. Case studies. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Commerce, Prehistoric. Commerce, Prehistoric Cross-cultural studies. Economic anthropology. Economic anthropology Cross-cultural studies. Electronic books. local Carballo, David M. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10642010 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 31809 31809