Cooperation in Economy and Society

This book explores the burgeoning interest in human cooperation among anthropologists, political scientists, economists, evolutionary psychologists, and biologists. Though typically neglected, cooperation is a crucial part of the triangle of allocation, formed with competition and obedience.

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Main Authors Marshall, Robert C, Acheson, James, Bird, Matthew, Clark, Gracia, Dahlin, Bruce, Dow, Malcolm, Eff, E. Anthon, Fuentes, Agustín, Greene, Katrina T, Hogeland, Julie
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Blue Ridge Summit AltaMira Press 2010
Edition1
SeriesSociety for economic anthropology monographs
Subjects
Archaeological research
Co-operatives
Cooperation
Cooperative societies
Economic anthropology
Ethnographic research
Evolutionary economics
Institutional cooperation
Society
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. COOPERATION AND COMPETITION -- Chapter 1. From Reciprocity to Trade: How Cooperative Infrastructures Form the Basis of Human Socioeconomic Evolution -- Chapter 2. Market Integration and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample -- Chapter 3. Critique of Reciprocity: Shifting Uses and Meanings of Ayni among Andean Groups -- Chapter 4. Commerce and Cooperation among the Classic Maya: The Chunchucmil Case -- PART II. COOPERATION AND HIERARCHY -- Chapter 5. Cooperation in Conflict: Negotiating Inequality in Midwestern U.S. Hog Contracting -- Chapter 6. Cooperation, Equality, and Difference: Loyalty and Accountability in Ghana's Marketplace Commodity Groups -- Chapter 7. Testing the Limits of Nonzero: Cooperation, Conflict, and Hierarchy in Ancient Near Eastern Marginal Environments -- PART III. COOPERATION AND COOPERATIVES -- Chapter 8. Cooperation in the Informal Economy: The Case of Recyclers at a Brazilian Garbage Dump -- Chapter 9. Is It Possible to Overcome the"Tragedy of Ubuntu"?: The Journey of a Black Women's Economic Empowerment Group in South Africa -- Chapter 10. The Normative Construction of U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives, 1900-2008 -- PART IV. COOPERATION RISING -- Chapter 11. Creating Common Grazing Rights on Private Parcels:How New Rules Produce Incentives for Cooperative Land Management -- Chapter 12. Cooperation and the Development of Conservation Laws: The Case of the Maine Lobster Industry -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors