Welfare, ethnicity, and altruism
Subtitle: new findings and evolutionary theory
By: editor, Frank Salter.
Contributors: Salter, Frank K.
Series: Cass series--nationalism and ethnicity.
Publisher: Frank Cass
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Welfare -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses; Altruism -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses; Ethnocentrism -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- Congresses; Sociobiology -- Congresses; Multiculturalism -- Government policy -- Congresses
Genres: Cross-cultural studies; Congresses.
Description: "This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars: evolutionary biologists; political scientists; sociologists; anthropologists; economists; primatologists; and human ethologists. Contributors examine how ethnic diversity can affect the level of welfare and cross-ethnic charitableness at both national and cross-national levels, in industrial and tribal societies. A study of meat-sharing in chimpanzees provides a cross-species comparison." "This book breaks new ground in advancing our understanding of multicultural politics, ethnic competition and conflict."--Jacket.
Notes: Presents findings based on the symposium "Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism: Bringing in Evolutionary Theory," hosted by the Werner Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg, Germany, 10-13 February 1999.