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Hierarchy in the forest : the evolution of egalitarian behavior
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Hierarchy in the forest : the evolution of egalitarian behavior

Author: Christopher Boehm
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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"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 groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Boehm, Christopher.
Hierarchy in the forest.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)607384799
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Boehm
ISBN: 0674390318 9780674390317
OCLC Number: 41176658
Description: xi, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Christopher Boehm.

Abstract:

"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 groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong."--Jacket.

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