Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

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This path-breaking book addresses the nature of human sociality. By bringing together experimental and ethnographic data from fifteen different tribal societies the contributors are able to explore the universality of human motives in economic decision-making and the importance of social institutional and cultural factors in a manner that has been extremely rare in the social sciences. Its findings have far-reaching implications across the social sciences.