Our Story: How Cultures Shaped People to Get Things Done by W. Penn Handwerker (

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Our Story explores the relationship between the individual and the many cultures to which he or she belongs simultaneously—cultures that make it possible for people to act as teams with a shared moral vision of what they can and should accomplish.

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The story of human evolution, or Our Story, is about the development and refinement of cultures. Individuals cannot do things on their own, this book argues; their choices are driven by heuristics, biases, illogical preferences, and irrational assumptions about the nature of reality. So how did humanity survive? By forming more and more successful cultures, which are teams of people who share a specific vision of the world. Because cultures-as-teams are more effective if there is a strong correspondence among the members, they select individuals who clarify the team's vision and force compliance to that vision. Thus, cultures-as-teams are powerful agents for change in the world. They offer the individual the opportunity to accomplish unimaginable goals, but they can also destroy him or her in the process.

Author Biography

W. Penn Handwerker , a professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA trained as a general anthropologist with an emphasis on the intersection of biological and cultural anthropology, has published in all five fields of anthropology (applied, archaeological, biological, cultural, and linguistic). He has done field research in West Africa, the West Indies, the Russia, and various regions of the United States. He developed new methods for studying cultures while doing research on human fertility, entrepreneurship, corruption, and both inter- and intra-generational power differences. His current research focuses on the possibility that the most effective collective action for community sustainability must be consistent with the cultural assumption that each person knows what's best for him or herself.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Still Looking After All These Years ~ 150 Years! Drives You Crazy; Part I On Cultures; Chapter 1a Cultures Originate in Intelligent Minds; Chapter 2 Cultures Establish Moral Orders; Chapter 3 Morally Ordered Behavior Gives Cultures Agency; Chapter 4 Living Requires Many Cultures, Thriving Requires They Be Well-Designed; Part II On the Properties of mind that Produce Agency; Chapter 5 Coercive Force Yields Morally Ordered Behavior; Chapter 6 Cognitive Coercion May Kill You Before You Get Anywhere; Chapter 7 Intelligence Makes for Disturbing Irony; Chapter 9 Lessons Learned Cultures Aren't Merely Curiosities, and How 'œOthers' Think and Act;

Details ISBN1598746774 Author W. Penn Handwerker Publisher Left Coast Press Inc ISBN-10 1598746774 ISBN-13 9781598746778 Format Hardcover Imprint Left Coast Press Inc Subtitle How Cultures Shaped People to Get Things Done Place of Publication Walnut Creek Country of Publication United States DEWEY 306 Year 2015 Short Title OUR STORY Language English Media Book Affiliation University of Connecticul, USA Pages 128 Publication Date 2015-02-15 UK Release Date 2015-02-15 AU Release Date 2015-02-15 NZ Release Date 2015-02-15 US Release Date 2015-02-15 Alternative 9781598746785 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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