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SUMMARY:Chris Boehm - Two Anthropological Models for Understanding Global Conflict Resolution
DESCRIPTION:Chris Boehm: USC Dept. of AnthropologyChimpanzees and human hunter-gatherers are taken as models which help to explain our troubled world of nations\, which in many ways is like a chimpanzee community with dominant alpha nations that throw their weight around—but in others is like a hunter-gatherer band\, in which the group sees to it that no one individual is permitted to be too “alpha.” In the latter sense\, the United Nations is set up politically so that no single nation can dominate it because of the veto\, and the resultant world of nations looks nothing like a single nation\, which has sufficient coercive force at the political center to prevent most internecine conflict. Turning to the chimpanzee model again\, there\, too\, coercive force is used within the society to control conflict\, with alpha males displaying at combatants and separating them until they have cooled off. Distinctively\, the alpha male mediation role is an even-handed one\, even if the combatants are respectively allies and enemies of the alpha. Practical lessons to be learned come in the form of insights into problems and possibilities for creating a more effective world government\, and in informing the world’s superpowers that conflict resolution\, to be effective\, should be even-handed. The Israeli-Palestinian case is taken briefly as an example.http://www.bec.ucla.edu/papers/Boehm_1-12-04.rtf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/chris-boehm-two-anthropological-models-for-understanding-global-conflict-resolution/
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SUMMARY:Aimee Plourde - The Evolution of Prestige Good Economies and the Origins of Sociopolitical Complexity
DESCRIPTION:Aimee Plourde: UCLA Dept. of AnthropologyThe emergence of social ranking and political hierarchy in human society constituted a fundamental departure from the small\, egalitarian group structure thought to characterize society for most of our species’ history. Explaining the origins of social ranking is thus key to understanding the underlying structures of modern human societies\, and the evolutionary processes that have generated them. Archaeologists have argued that the emergence of an economy of prestige goods in prehistory provided a critical means for leaders in chiefdom-level societies to attract followers and establish hierarchical relations with elites in neighboring polities. However\, these arguments fail to explain the initial attraction of prestige goods themselves. Here I present a model for the evolution of psychological mechanisms that value prestige goods\, and outline the evolving role of prestige goods in the negotiation of hierarchy at increasing levels of political ranking. This model is assessed against archaeological excavation and survey data collected in the northern Lake Titicaca Basin of highland Peru. The data demonstrate that strong correlations exist between increasing polity size and political hierarchy on the one hand and increasingly direct control of the trade routes used to procure prestige items on the other.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/aimee-plourde-the-evolution-of-prestige-good-economies-and-the-origins-of-sociopolitical-complexity/
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SUMMARY:Rob Boyd - The Evolution of Contingent Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:Rob Boyd: UCLA Dept. of Anthropology
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/rob-boyd-the-evolution-of-contingent-cooperation/
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