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Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland
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This article is published in History: Reviews of New Books.The article was published on 1991-04-01. It has received 107 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Peacemaking & Feud.read more
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Within- and between-culture variation: Individual differences and the cultural logics of honor, face, and dignity cultures.
Angela K.-Y. Leung,Dov Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: The CuPS approach attempts to jointly consider culture and individual differences, without treating either as noise and without reducing one to the other, to provide a rudimentary but integrated approach to understanding both within- and between-culture variation.
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Reciprocity: Weak or strong? What punishment experiments do (and do not) demonstrate
TL;DR: It is argued that the wide interpretation of the experimental evidence must be tested using a combination of laboratory data and evidence about cooperation “in the wild,” because there is no evidence that cooperation in the small egalitarian societies studied by anthropologists is enforced by means of costly punishment.
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A mutualistic approach to morality: The evolution of fairness by partner choice
TL;DR: An approach to morality is developed as an adaptation to an environment in which individuals were in competition to be chosen and recruited in mutually advantageous cooperative interactions, and the best strategy is to treat others with impartiality and to share the costs and benefits of cooperation equally.
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Homesteading the Noosphere
TL;DR: The actual customs of open-source software imply an underlying theory of property rights homologous to the Lockean theory of land tenure, which is related to an analysis of the hacker culture as a 'gift culture' in which participants compete for prestige by giving time, energy, and creativity away.
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A Theory of Contract Law Under Conditions of Radical Judicial Error
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce an informal model of contracting where courts are assumed to be radically incompetent, that is, they are unable to determine whether a party in a contract dispute has engaged in opportunistic behavior (breach), although they can determine whether parties intended to enter a legally enforceable contract.
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The Good, the Bad and the Cunning: How Networks Make or Break Cooperation
TL;DR: In this article, a game-theoretic model is proposed to identify the role that networks play in making or breaking cooperation in tight-knit groups, and the model is shown to be flexible enough to account for the various ways that a group may be imperfectly tight-wired.
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Cementing alliances? witnesses to marriage and baptism in early nineteenth-century iceland
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the choice of godparents and witnesses to marriage in early nineteenth-century Iceland and found that close kin played a markedly more important role as witnesses, particularly in the upland community that had a more stable population than the coastal one.
Law without Coercion: Examining the Role of Law in Coordinating Collective Punishment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss several settings in which centralized coercive force is absent and yet social order relies on distinctively legal attributes and institutions, and sketch out how a social scientific account of law can help identify the institutions that support legal order in a wide range of settings that do not presume the existence of centralized coercion.