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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of Human Co-operation: Ritual and Social Complexity in Stateless Societies

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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 insights from game theory, ethnography and archaeology, Stanish shows how ritual - broadly defined - is the key. Ritual practices encode elaborate rules of behavior and are ingenious mechanisms of organizing society in the absence of coercive states. As well as asking why and how people choose to co-operate, Stanish also provides the theoretical framework to understand this collective action problem. He goes on to highlight the evolution of cooperation with ethnographic and archaeological data from around of the world. Merging evolutionary game theory concepts with cultural evolutionary theory, this book will appeal to those seeking a transdisciplinary approach to one of the greatest problems in human evolution.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1107180554
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 03 August 2017
Listed Since: 25 November 2016

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