How humans cooperate : confronting the challenges of collective action / Richard E. Blanton ; with Lane F. Fargher.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Blanton, Richard E., author.

Fargher, Lane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooperativeness.

Cooperation.

Social action.

Physical Description:

xi, 423 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]

Summary:

"A new approach to investigating human cooperation developed from the vantage point of an 'anthropological imagination.' Drawing the discipline's broad understanding of humans in biological, social, and cultural dimensions, and across a wide range of temporal, spatial, and cultural variation"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What does evolutionary psychology tell us about human cooperation?

The path to cooperation through collective action and institutions

Anthropology : the missing voice in the conversation about cooperation

The contingent cooperator as seen from the perspectives of neurobiology and bioevolution

Cooperation or competition in the marketplace?

On the need to rethink theories of state formation and how collective action theory will help

Cooperation in state-building? An investigation of collective action before and after the rise of modern democracies

Center and hinterland under conditions of collective action

Collective action and the shaping of cities and their neighborhoods

The cultural process of cooperation

The causes and consequences of collective action

Final thoughts : insights gained from an expanded collective action theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781607326168

1607326167

9781607325130

1607325136

OCLC:

949553688