Reciprocity in Human Societies

✍ Scribed by Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss’s well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore’s idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled. Teasing out the interrelatedness of these approaches, Reciprocity in Human Societies suggests that evolutionary psychology reveals a human tendency for reciprocity and collaboration, not only in a mutually cooperative way but also through increasing retributive moral emotions. The book discusses various historical societies and the different models of the current welfare state—Nordic (social democratic), conservative, and liberal— and the repercussions of the neoliberal policies of tax havens, tax cuts, and austerity with a cross-disciplinary approach that bridges evolutionary psychology, sociology, and social anthropology with history.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 1-19
Inca and Maya Reciprocity (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 21-37
The Indian Gift and Village Servants (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 39-49
Moral Obligations in Early Modern Japan (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 51-57
Gift Exchange and Reciprocity in the Nordic Countries (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 59-77
Reciprocity in the French Army in the First World War and in the Finnish Army in 1941–1944 (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 79-103
The Modern Welfare State (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 105-154
Inequality in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 155-208
Reciprocity Past and Present (Antti Kujala, Mirkka Danielsbacka)....Pages 209-216
Back Matter ....Pages 217-225

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Social Anthropology; Social Theory; Politics of the Welfare State; Biological Psychology; Sociological Theory; Social Structure, Social Inequality