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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Boehm, Christopher. Hierarchy in the forest. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607384799 |
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| 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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