Cooperation in economy and society [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert. C. Marshall

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3
• Soggetto topico: Cooperation; Cooperative societies; Institutional cooperation; Economic anthropology
• Altri autori: MarshallRobert C. <1948->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cooperation in economy and society
• ISBN: 1-282-92210-6; 9786612922107; 0-7591-1983-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808000703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; ; v. 28.