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Cooperation in Chinese Communities - Morality and Practice (Hardcover)
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Cooperation in Chinese Communities - Morality and Practice (Hardcover)
Series: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
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When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological
mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is
cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our
species over the course of evolution, or rather something that
depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book
addresses these central questions concerning human nature and the
nature of cooperation. The editors present a wide range of vivid
anthropological case-studies focused on everyday cooperation in
Chinese communities, for example, between children in Nanjing
playing a ballgame; parents in Edinburgh organising a community
school; villagers in Yunnan dealing with "common pool" resource
problems; and families in Kinmen in Taiwan worshipping their dead
together. On the one hand, these case studies illustrate some
uniquely Chinese cultural factors, such as those related to kinship
ideals and institutions that shape the experience and practice of
cooperation. They also illustrate, on the other hand, how China's
recent history, not least the rise and fall of collectivism in
various forms, continues to shape the experience of cooperation for
ordinary people in China today. Finally, they show that in spite of
the cultural and historical particularity of Chinese cooperation,
it does share some underlying features that would be familiar to
people coming from radically different backgrounds.
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