Cooperation and Collective Action in the Cultural Evolution of Complex Societies |
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Authors: | David M Carballo Paul Roscoe Gary M Feinman |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA 2. Department of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA 3. Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
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Abstract: | Investigations of the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation and collective action provide productive venues for theorizing social complexity, yet this multidisciplinary scholarship contains analytical and epistemological tensions that require reconciliation. We propose a course for integration of this diverse literature to investigate the emergence and developmental trajectories of complex societies. Greater attention to collective action problems, cultural mechanisms that promote cooperation, differentiation of human interests, and multiscalar research designs provide firmer conceptual underpinnings for a theoretically grounded cultural evolutionary framework. The case of agricultural intensification in pre-Hispanic highland Mexico is used to illustrate major points of the paper. |
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