THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Written by W.G. Runciman
Published by Oxford University Press
in 2001
ISBN: 0197262503
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THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Written by W.G. Runciman.
Stock no. 1322648
1st.
2001.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
These papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is arguable the central question in the study of human social evolution. Burgundy boards, gilt title to spine. 259 pages. B/w diagrams. Published for The British Adademy, this is Proceedings of the British Academy 110. ISBN: 0197262503.
Front cover
Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- From Sedentary Foragers to Village Hierarchies: The Emergence of Social Institutions - Ofer bar-Yosef
- Different Kinds of History: On the Nature of Lives and Change in Central Europe, c. 6000 to the Second Millennium BC - Alasdair Whittle
- The Birth of Architecture - Richard Bradley
- Commodification and Institution in Group-Oriented and Individualizing Societies - Colin Renfrew
- Social Competition, Social Intelligence, and Why the Bugis Know More about Cooking than about Nutrition - Jerome Barkow, Nurpudji Astuti Taslilm, Veni Hadju, Elly Ishak, Faisal Attamimi, Sani Silwana, Djunaidi M Dachlan, Ramli & a Yahya
- How and Why Did Fairness Norms Evolve? - Ken Binmore
- Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins of Human Social Institutions - Robert A Foley
- Institutional Evolution in the Holocene: The Rise of Complex Societies - Peter Richerson & Robert Boyd
- From Nature to Culture, from Culture to Society - W Runciman
- Index