How humans cooperate : confronting the challenges of collective action / Richard E. Blanton ; with Lane F. Fargher.
| Author/creator | Blanton, Richard E. author. |
| Other author | Fargher, Lane, author. |
| Format | Archival & Manuscript Material |
| Publication | Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016] |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | xi, 423 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2016019924 |
| ISBN | 9781607326168 paperback |
| ISBN | 1607326167 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781607325130 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1607325136 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |