Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables ix
5. Part I Theoretical Perspectives
6. 1 Cultural and Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation in Archaeological Perspective 3
7. 2 The Emergence of Social Complexity 35
8. 3 War, Collective Action, and the “Evolution” of Human Polities 57
9. 4 The Ritualized Economy and Cooperative Labor in Intermediate Societies 83
10. 5 Reconsidering Darwinian Anthropology 93
11. 6 Agency and Collective Action 129
12. Part II Case Studies
13. 7 Free-Riding, Cooperation, and Population Growth 151
14. 8 Cooperation and Competition among Late Woodland Households at Kolomoki, Georgia 175
15. 9 The Competitive Context of Cooperation in Pre-Hispanic Barinas, Venezuela 197
16. 10 Water Control and the Emergence of Polities in the Southern Maya Lowlands 223
17. 11 Labor Collectives and Group Cooperation in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico 243
18. 12 Caste as a Cooperative Economic Entitlement Strategy in Complex Societies of the Indian Subcontinent and Sub-Saharan Africa 275
19. 13 The Dynamics of Cooperation in Context 299
20. Contributors 309
21. Index 311