{"product_id":"cooperation-collective-action-david-m-carballo-9781607321972","title":"Cooperation \u0026 Collective Action: Archaeological Perspectives","description":"Past archaeological literature on cooperation theory has emphasized competition's role in cultural evolution. As a result, bottom-up possibilities for group cooperation have been under theorized in favor of models stressing top-down leadership, while evidence from a range of disciplines has demonstrated humans to effectively sustain cooperative undertakings through a number of social norms and institutions. \u003ci\u003eCooperation and Collective Action\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume to focus on the use of archaeological evidence to understand cooperation and collective action.\u003cp\u003eDisentangling the motivations and institutions that foster group cooperation among competitive individuals remains one of the few great conundrums within evolutionary theory. The breadth and material focus of archaeology provide a much needed complement to existing research on cooperation and collective action, which thus far has relied largely on game-theoretic modeling, surveys of college students from affluent countries, brief ethnographic experiments, and limited historic cases. In \u003ci\u003eCooperation and Collective Action\u003c\/i\u003e, diverse case studies address the evolution of the emergence of norms, institutions, and symbols of complex societies through the last 10,000 years. This book is an important contribution to the literature on cooperation in human societies that will appeal to archaeologists and other scholars interested in cooperation research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David M. Carballo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1607321971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781607321972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d","brand":"David M. Carballo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088635998463,"sku":"9781607321972","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff9e3cc6-1656-423c-93f4-2438b2d54958.jpg?v=1769105844","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cooperation-collective-action-david-m-carballo-9781607321972","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}