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Groups: The Evolution of Human
Sociality
Edited by Kaori Kawai
This volume is the product of a collaborative project
based at the Research Institute for Languages and
Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies. Researchers primarily involved in three
fields—primate sociology and ecology, ecological anthropology
and socio–cultural anthropology—came together
to discuss the shape and variations of groups as sympatric
entities and the evolutionary historical foundations that
have led to the orientation of groups in present–day human
society. To that end, the chapters in this volume turn
to non–human primates for comparative purposes to consider
the nature of the evolutionary historical foundations
of sociality.
In place of the past objective of “reconstructing” the
ecology and society of early humans, the works in this
book instead aim to re-identify the creation and evolution
of that which is social and challenge the prevailing theory
of groups in socio-cultural anthropology. Specialists
on research into human beings and those studying nonhuman
primates develop the debate about groups in the
context of their own areas of expertise, at times in ways
that extend beyond the boundaries of their fields.
Contents
Introduction—In Pursuit of an Evolutionary Foundation for Human Society ⁄ Kaori Kawai
Part I: The Evolution of Sociality
1. The Sociology of Anti–Structure: Toward a Climax of
Groups ⁄ Kaoru Adachi
2. Assembly of Solitary Beings: Between Solitude and
“Invisible” Groups ⁄ Motomitsu Uchibori
3. From Whence Comes Human Sociality? Recursive
Decision–making Processes in the Group Phenomenon
and Classification of Others through Representation ⁄
Kōji Kitamura
4. The Function and Evolutionary History of Primate
Groups: Focusing on Sex Differences in Locational
Dispersal ⁄ Naofumi Nakagawa
Article 1—A Group of Chimpanzees: The World
Viewed from Females' Perspectives ⁄ Noriko Itoh
Part II: The Organization of Social Groups
5. The Ontology of Sociality: “Sharing” and Subsistence
Mechanisms ⁄ Keiichi Omura
6. Violence and the Autopoiesis of Groups: From the
Ethnography of Pirates and Feuds ⁄ Ikuya Tokoro
7. Forming a Gang: Raiding Among Pastoralists and the
“Practice of Cooperativity” ⁄ Kaori Kawai
Article 2—Yesterday's Friend is Today's Enemy: The
Huli Society of Papua New Guinea ⁄ Masahiro
Umezaki
Part III: The Formation and the Development of ‘We”
Consciousness
8. From the ‘Here and Now Group” to the “Distant
Group”: Hunter–gatherer Bands ⁄ Hideaki Terashima
9. Perceivable ‘Unity”: Between Visible ‘Group” and Invisible “Category” ⁄ Toru Soga
10. 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
Article 3—The ‘Group” called the Kenya Luo: A Social
Anthropological Profile ⁄ Wakana Shiino
Part IV: Towards a New Theory of Groups
11. Collective Excitement and Primitive War: What is
the Equality Principle? ⁄ Suehisa Kuroda
12. Agency and Seduction: Against a Girardian Model
of Society ⁄ Masakazu Tanaka
13. Human Groups at the Zero–Level: An Exploration of
the Meaning, Field and Structure of Relations at the
Level of Group Extinction ⁄ Takeo Funabiki
Conclusion—From “G roups” to “Instit utions”:
Summary and Prospects
Epilogue—The Legacy of Hitoshi Imamura: The Macro
lies in the Micro ⁄ Ryōko Nishii
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Hardcover: 426 pages
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press (April 1,
2013)
Language: English
Hardcover $109.500
ISBN-10: 1920901787
ISBN-13: 978-1920901783
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