Groups
Subtitle: the evolution of human sociality
By: edited by Kaori Kawai
Publisher: Kyoto University Press; Trans Pacific Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Kyoto, Japan; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781920901783; 9784876982578
Subjects: Social evolution; Social evolution in animals; Social groups; Communities; Primates; Behavior
Work titles: Gurupusu. English
Notes: "First published in Japanese in 2009 by Kyoto University Press"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-402) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The sociology of anti-structure  -- Kaoru Adachi; title: Assembly of solitary beings : between solitude and "invisible" groups  -- Motomitsu Uchibori; title: From whence comes human sociality? : recursive decision-making processes in the group phenomenon and classification of others through representation  -- Kōji Kitamura; title: The function and evolutionary history of primate groups : focusing on sex differences in locational dispersal  -- Naofumi Nakagawa; title: A group of chimpanzees : the world viewed from females' perspectives  -- Noriko Itoh; title: The ontology of sociality : "sharing" and subsistence mechanisms  -- Keiichi Omura; title: Violence and the autopoiesis of groups : from the ethnography of pirates and feuds  -- Ikuya Tokoro; title: Forming a gang : raiding among pastoralists and the "practice of cooperativity"  -- Kaori Kawai; title: Yesterday's friend is today's enemy : the Huli society of Papua New Guinea  -- Masahiro Umezaki; title: From the "here and now group" to the "distant group" : hunter-gatherer bands  -- Hideaki Terashima; title: Perceivalbe "unity" : between visible "group" and invisible "category"  -- Toru Soga; title: 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; title: The "group" called the Kenya Luo : a social anthropological profile  -- Wakana Shiino; title: Collective excitement and primitive war : what is the equality principle?  -- Suehisa Kuroda; title: Agency and seduction : against a Girardian model of society  -- Masakazu Tanaka; title: Human groups at the zero-level : an exploration of the meaning, field and structure of relations at the level of group extinction  -- Takeo Funabiki; title: From "groups" to "institutions" : summary and prospects --; title: The legacy of Hitoshi Imamura : the macro lies in the micro -- Ryōko Nishii.