02953nam a2200373 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020002900112020002700141040002100168035002100189050002600210082001400236245012200250246006900372260005900441300002200500504005100522505006100573520142500634533015202059650002702211650005102238650002702289650005102316655002902367700002302396710001702419856012602436999001702562ebr10642010CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||121109s2013    couad   sb    001 0 eng d  z  2012038942  z9781607321972 (hardback)  z9781607322085 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)84755022514aGN799.C45bC67 2013eb04a306.322300aCooperation & collective actionh[electronic resource] :barchaeological perspectives /cedited by David M. Carballo.3 aCooperation and collective action :barchaeological perspectives  aBoulder, Colo. :bUniversity Press of Colorado,c2013.  ax, 319 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 apt. I. Theoretical perspectives -- pt. II. Case studies.  a"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"--cProvided by publisher.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aCommerce, Prehistoric. 0aCommerce, PrehistoricvCross-cultural studies. 0aEconomic anthropology. 0aEconomic anthropologyvCross-cultural studies. 7aElectronic books.2local1 aCarballo, David M.2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10642010zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c31809d31809