Recent studies of the symbolic aspects of exchange have either focused on the act of prestation as a rhetorical gesture in the communication of influence, or stress the symbolism of objects of ...

Humans are unique among animals in our unparalleled capacity to cooperate. While other social animals direct their help towards their kin – bees work together to ensure the success of the hive, and ...

The first part of this paper analyses why and how reciprocity is a successful strategy for group formation and a basic norm for social integration. According to neoutilitarian social theory, ...

I call it the “Bourbon Street Caper.” It didn’t happen to me, but the experience was so absorbing, as told by an acquaintance of mine, that I feel like it did. The scene was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, ...