Includes bibliographical references and index.

From reciprocity to trade : how cooperative infrastructures form the basis of human socioeconomic evolution / Rahul Oka and Agustiń Fuentes -- Market integration and prosocial behavior : evidence from the standard cross-cultural sample / E. Anthon Eff and Malcolm McLaren Dow -- Critique of reciprocity : shifting uses and meanings of Ayni among Andean groups / Matthew Bird -- Commerce and cooperation among the classic Maya : the Chunchucmil case / Scott R. Hutson, Bruce H. Dahlin, and Daniel Mazeau -- Cooperation in conflict : negotiating inequality in midwestern U.S. hog contracting / Ronald Rich -- Cooperation, equality, and difference : loyalty and accountability in Ghana's marketplace commodity groups / Gracia Clark -- Testing the limits of nonzero : cooperation, conflict, and hierarchy in ancient near eastern marginal environments / Benjamin W. Porter -- Cooperation in the informal economy : the case of recyclers at a Brazilian garbage dump / Kathleen Millar -- Is it possible to overcome the "tragedy of Ibuntu"? The journey of a black women's economic empowerment group in South Africa / Katrina T. Greene -- The normative construction of U.S. agricultural cooperatives, 1900-2008 / Julie Hogeland -- Creating common grazing rights on private parcels : how new rules produce incentives for cooperative land management / Carolyn K. Lesorogol -- Cooperation and the development of conservation laws : the case of the Maine lobster industry / James M. Acheson.

This book explores the burgeoning interest in human cooperation among anthropologists, political scientists, economists, evolutionary psychologists, and biologists. Though typically neglected, cooperation is a crucial part of the triangle of allocation, formed with competition and obedience.