Hierarchy in the Forest : : The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior /

Hierarchy in the Forest : : The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior / / Christopher Boehm.

Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate group...

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Boehm, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2001
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1 The Question of Egalitarian Society
  • 2 Hierarchy and Equality
  • 3 Putting Down Aggressors
  • 4 Equality and Its Causes
  • 5 A Wider View of Egalitarianism
  • 6 The Hominoid Political Spectrum
  • 7 Ancestral Politics
  • 8 The Evolution of Egalitarian Society
  • 9 Paleolithic Politics and Natural Selection
  • 10 Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature
  • References
  • Index

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