The Origin of Human Social Institutions: 110 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0197262503 ISBN 13: 9780197262504

Casa editrice: OUP/British Academy, 2001

Riassunto

These papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is arguably the central question in the study of human social evolution: how did the simple hunting and foraging bands of the Upper Palaeolithic evolve into the institutionally complex societies of the so-called Neolithic Revolution?
The contributors to this volume are leading experts from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and game theory, all of whom share a common evolutionary perspective. The ideas presented here form a major addition to the widespread current interest in evolutionary theory as applied to human behaviour.

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... prestigious volume. (The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

Contenuti:

• Ofer Bar-Yosef: From Sedentary Foragers to Village Hierarchies: the Emergence of Social Institutions
• Alasdair Whittle: Different Kinds of History: on the Nature of Lives and Change in Central Europe, c.6000-after 2000BC
• Richard Bradley: The Birth of Architecture
• Colin Renfrew: Commodification and Institution in Group-oriented and Individualizing Societies
• Jerome Barkow: Social Competition, Social Intelligence, and Why the Bugis Know More about Cooking than about Nutrition
• Kenneth Binmore: How and Why did Fairness Norms Evolve?
• Robert Foley: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins of Human Social Institutions
• Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd: Institutional Evolution in the Holocene: The Rise of Complex Societies
• W. G. Runciman: From Nature to Culture, from Culture to Society

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• Editore: OUP/British Academy
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0197262503
• ISBN 13: 9780197262504
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 270
• Redattore: Runciman W. G.