Primate Politics - Tapa blanda

Social scientists have much to learn from Primate Politics. Its contributors treat the social and political life of primates...with a subtlety and sophistication that is all too often missing from accounts of human politics by mainstream social scientists. -- Elliott White, Temple University This volume represents a significant and noteworthy effort to advance the linkage between the life sciences and the study of politics....Anyone interested in the linkage between human politics and our primate relatives' behavior ought to read this book. -- Steven A. Peterson, Professor of Political Science, Alfred University This volume represents a significant and noteworthy effort to advance the linkage between the life sciences and the study of politics....Anyone interested in the linkage between human politics and our primate relatives' behavior ought to read this book. -- Steven A. Peterson, Professor of Political Science, Alfred University Social scientists have much to learn from Primate Politics. Its contributors treat the social and political life of primates...with a subtlety and sophistication that is all too often missing from accounts of human politics by mainstream social scientists. -- Elliott White, Temple University

This book examines the political behavior of primates in the context of a comparison of human and nonhuman social life. Essays by leading scholars from primatology and the social sciences explore the extent to which it is justifiable to speak of politics as a phenomenon among primates and show how human politics can be more deeply understood in the light of hominid evolution and primate behavior. The new paperback edition includes a new preface which reviews developments in the field since the original publication by Southern Illinois University Press in 1991. Contents: Foreword by Albert Somit; Preface to the Paperback Edition, Glendon Shubert and Roger D. Masters; Editors' Preface; PART I: PRIMATOLOGY AND POLITICS; Introduction: Primatological Theory, Glendon Schubert; Primate Politics, Glendon Schubert; On the Significance of the Concept of the Harem When Applied to Animals, Thelma E. Rowell; Redefining the Social Link: From Baboons to Humans, Shirley S. Strum and Bruno Latour; PART II: CHIMPANZEES; Introduction: The Missing Political Link, Glendon Schubert; Gombe Chimpanzee Politics, Jane Goodall; Sex Differences in the Formation of Coalitions among Chimpanzees, Frans B.M. de Waal; PART III: HUMAN; Introduction: Human Politics, Roger D. Masters; Tolerated Theft: Suggestions about the Ecology and Evolution of Sharing, Hoarding, and Scrounging, Nicholas G. Blurton Jones; Facial Displays and Political Leadership: Some Experimental Findings; Denis G. Sullivan and Roger D. Masters; Human Volcalizations in Agonistic Political Encounters, James N. Schubert; Conclusion: Primate Politics and Political Theory, Roger D. Masters; References; Notes on Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index.