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Cooperation and collective action : archaeological perspectives /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Coulder, Colorado :
University Press of Colorado,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- PART I: Theoretical Perspectives
- 1. Cultural and Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation in Archaeological Perspective
- COOPERATION: DEFINITIONS AND APPROACHES
- Conceptualizing Cooperation
- Public Goods and Common-Pool Resource Problems
- Mechanisms Promoting Cooperation: The Four Rs
- Cooperation and Collective Action in Cultural Evolution
- DEVELOPING ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COOPERATION
- Resource Problems
- Institutions and strategies
- Material Cultures of Cooperation
- ORGANIZATION OF THE VOLUME
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 2. The Emergence of Social Complexity: Why More than Population Size Matters
- HUMAN GROUPS ARE DISTINCTIVE
- EGALITARIANISM
- THE NEOLITHIC PACKAGE, POPULATION, AND COMPLEXITY
- ZOOMING DOWN ON SIZE-COMPLEXITY
- BRINGING IN INTEGRATION
- DIFFERENT HISTORICAL PATHWAYS
- VARIATION IN INTEGRATIVE STRATEGIES: AN EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORK
- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 3. War, Collective Action, and the "Evolution" of Human Polities
- COLLECTIVE-ACTION THEORY AND HUMAN INTERESTS
- WAR AND THE FORMATION OF LARGE-SCALE SOCIAL GROUPS
- THE NATION-STATE AND DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATION
- SCALE AND THE DEFENSIVE COMMUNITY
- THE NATURE AND SCALE OF POLITICAL CENTRALIZATION
- SYMBIOSIS AND ANTAGONISM: RECONCILING VOLUNTARISTIC AND CONFLICT APPROACHES
- CONQUEST WARFARE, POLITICAL INTEGRATION, AND EMPIRE
- EMPIRE AND THE FAILURES OF MODERNITY
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 4. The Ritualized Economy and Cooperative Labor in Intermediate Societies
- COOPERATION
- MAINTAINING ECONOMIC COOPERATION THROUGH RITUAL AND TABOO
- SCHEDULING OF DOMESTIC LABOR AND THE PRINCIPLE OF PROPORTIONAL RITUALIZATION
- SUMMARY
- NOTES
- REFERENCES.
- 5. Reconsidering Darwinian Anthropology: With Suggestions for a Revised Agenda for Cooperation Research
- PROSOCIAL ACTION IS ARGUED TO RESULT (IN PART) FROM BIOLOGICALLY EVOLVED MENTAL MODULES AND SOCIAL INSTINCTS
- METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND OTHER CHALLENGES TO DARWINIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
- Cooperation Is Not Necessarily a Product of Mental Modules or Social Instincts
- Steps to a Multiscalar Perspective on Contingent Cooperation
- AN EMPIRICAL AND SCIENTIFIC APPROACH FOR COOPERATION RESEARCH APPLIED TO PREMODERN STATES
- THE PROBLEMATIZATION OF RELIGION AND POWER IN MORE COOPERATIVE POLITIES
- How Is the Relationship of Power and Religion Problematized?
- ASANTE
- Lozi
- SWAHILI LAMU
- EARLY AND MIDDLE MING DYNASTY
- ATHENS
- ROMAN HIGH EMPIRE PERIOD
- VENICE
- OTTOMAN EMPIRE
- AZTEC
- Conclusions from the Analysis of Dichotomized Data on Polity and Religion
- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
- The Contingent Character of Human Social Action Brings cooperator Dilemmas
- Final Comments
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 6. Agency and Collective Action
- HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGIES OF COLLECTIVE ACTION
- Race
- Gender
- Class
- CONCLUSIONS FOR AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR
- REFERENCES
- PART II: Case Studies
- 7. Free-Riding, Cooperation, and Population Growth: The Evolution of Privatization and Leaders in Owens Valley, California
- COOPERATION AND FREE-RIDING
- OWENS VALLEY AS A CASE STUDY
- TESTING THE PRIVATIZATION MODEL
- New Subsistence Pursuits
- Interhousehold Heterogeneity
- Intrahousehold Activity Areas
- Discussion
- THE EVOLUTION OF PRIVATIZED, EXCLUDABLE GOODS AND SMALL-SCALE LEADERS
- REFERENCES
- 8. Cooperation and Competition among Late Woodland Households at Kolomoki, Georgia
- THE MIDDLE WOODLAND AND EARLY LATE WOODLAND PERIODS
- THE TERMINAL LATE WOODLAND
- DISCUSSION.
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 9. The Competitive Context of Cooperation in Pre-Hispanic Barinas, Venezuela: A Multilevel-Selection Approach
- MODELING THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION
- THE EL GAVÁN POLITY IN BARINAS, VENEZUELA
- OTHER REGIONAL POLITIES
- APPLYING THE MULTILEVEL-SELECTION MODEL
- EVIDENCE OF INTERPOLITY CONFLICT
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 10. Water Control and the Emergence of Polities in the Southern Maya Lowlands: Evolutionary, Economic, and Ecological Models
- PATRON-CLIENT RELATIONS: A SIMPLE SCENARIO WITH COMPLEX RESULTS
- SURPLUS DISTRIBUTION IN THE PATRON-CLIENT SCENARIO AND SIMULATION
- WATER CONTROL AND THE PATRON-CLIENT SCENARIO IN THE SOUTHERN MAYA LOWLANDS
- ECONOMIC BARGAINING MODELS
- FROM THE EMERGENCE OF POLITIES TO THEIR DECLINE
- LIMITATIONS OF THE MODELS
- CONCLUDING REMARKS AND SYNTHESIS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 11. Labor Collectives and Group Cooperation in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico
- LABOR COLLECTIVES AND GROUP COOPERATION IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ETHNOHISTORIC RECORDS
- LABOR COLLECTIVES AND GROUP COOPERATION IN THE LATE FORMATIVE TO CLASSIC PERIODS
- Resource Problems
- Institutions and Strategies
- Material symbols and Ritual
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- 12. Caste as a Cooperative Economic Entitlement Strategy in Complex Societies of the Indian Subcontinent and Sub-Saharan Africa
- GROUP RESPONSES TO PERIODS OF DECLINE IN COMPLEX SOCIETIES
- THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT
- WEST AFRICA
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF CASTE AS A GROUP-LEVEL RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND POLITICAL FLUCTUATIONS
- DISCUSSION
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 13. The Dynamics of Cooperation in Context
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- REFERENCES
- Contributors
- Index.