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1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-280) and index. |
| Summary |
"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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Contents |
""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""The Question of Egalitarian Society""; ""Hierarchy and Equality""; ""Putting Down Aggressors""; ""Equality and Its Causes""; ""A Wider View of Egalitarianism""; ""The Hominoid Political Spectrum""; ""Ancestral Politics""; ""The Evolution of Egalitarian Society""; ""Paleolithic Politics and Natural Selection""; ""Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature""; ""References""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human evolution.
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Human evolution. |
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Social evolution.
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Social evolution. |
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Hunting and gathering societies.
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Hunting and gathering societies. |
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Primates -- Evolution.
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Primates -- Evolution. |
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Social evolution in animals.
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Social evolution in animals. |
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Political anthropology.
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Political anthropology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boehm, Christopher. Hierarchy in the forest. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999 (DLC) 99024035 |
| ISBN |
9780674028449 (electronic book) |
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0674028449 (electronic book) |
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0674390318 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780674390317 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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