Research Catalog

Title

Groups : the evolution of human sociality / edited by Kaori Kawai.

Publication

Kyoto, Japan : Kyoto University Press ; Victoria, Australia : Trans Pacific Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Kawai, Kaori, 1961-

Description

xi, 413 pages; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Gurupusu. English.

Subject

• Social evolution
• Social evolution in animals

Note

• "First published in Japanese in 2009 by Kyoto University Press"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-402) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The sociology of anti-structure / Kaoru Adachi -- Assembly of solitary beings : between solitude and "invisible" groups / Motomitsu Uchibori -- From whence comes human sociality? : recursive decision-making processes in the group phenomenon and classification of others through representation / Kōji Kitamura -- The function and evolutionary history of primate groups : focusing on sex differences in locational dispersal / Naofumi Nakagawa -- A group of chimpanzees : the world viewed from females' perspectives / Noriko Itoh -- The ontology of sociality : "sharing" and subsistence mechanisms / Keiichi Omura -- Violence and the autopoiesis of groups : from the ethnography of pirates and feuds / Ikuya Tokoro -- Forming a gang : raiding among pastoralists and the "practice of cooperativity" / Kaori Kawai -- Yesterday's friend is today's enemy : the Huli society of Papua New Guinea / Masahiro Umezaki -- From the "here and now group" to the "distant group" : hunter-gatherer bands / Hideaki Terashima -- Perceivalbe "unity" : between visible "group" and invisible "category" / Toru Soga -- The small village of "we, the Bemba" : the reference phase that connects the daily life practice in a residential group to the chiefdom / Yuko Sugiyama -- The "group" called the Kenya Luo : a social anthropological profile / Wakana Shiino -- Collective excitement and primitive war : what is the equality principle? / Suehisa Kuroda -- Agency and seduction : against a Girardian model of society / Masakazu Tanaka -- Human groups at the zero-level : an exploration of the meaning, field and structure of relations at the level of group extinction / Takeo Funabiki -- From "groups" to "institutions" : summary and prospects -- The legacy of Hitoshi Imamura : the macro lies in the micro / Ryōko Nishii.

ISBN

• 1920901787
• 9781920901783

OCLC

825756199

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library