Christopher Boehm
Christopher Boehm (1931–2021) was an American
Education
Boehm received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1972, and was later trained in ethological field techniques (1983).
Work
Boehm did field work with human societies such as the
as well as primates such as wild chimpanzees, focusing on questions of morality in an evolutionary context.After analyzing data from 48 human societies spread across the globe, ranging from small hunting and gathering bands to more sedentary chiefdoms, Boehm suggested that all human societies likely practiced egalitarianism before the domestication of plants and animals, and that most of the time they did so very successfully.[4]
Boehm wrote:
- "As long as followers remain vigilantly egalitarian because they understand the nature of domination and leaders remain cognizant of this ambivalence-based vigilance, deliberate control of leaders may remain for the most part highly routinized and ethnographically unobvious."
Boehm identified the following mechanisms ensuring the what he called a "Reverse Dominance Hierarchy":
Awards
Boehm won the Stirling Prize in Psychological Anthropology, and was a recipient of a
Publications
Bibliography
- Boehm, Christopher (2014). "The moral consequences of social selection". . Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- Boehm, Christopher (2012). Moral Origins: Social Selection and the Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame. New York: ISBN 978-0465020485.
- Boehm, Christopher (1999). "The Natural Selection of Altruistic Traits" (PDF). S2CID 207392341. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
- Boehm, Christopher (2001) [1999]. Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior (Revised ed.). ISBN 978-0674006911.
- Boehm, C. (1986). Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. [1984 book reprinted with revisions and new title].
- Boehm, C. (1984). Blood Revenge: The Anthropology of Feuding in Montenegro and Other Nonliterate Societies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
- Boehm, C. (1983). Montenegrin Social Organization and Values: Political Ethnography of a Refuge Area Tribal Adaptation. New York: AMS Press.
See also
- Evolution of morality
- Political anthropology
- Primatology
- Evolutionary anthropology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Sociobiology
References
- ^ "Faculty Profile > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences". dornsife.usc.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-08-25. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
- ^ Crable, Margaret (March 4, 2022). "Anthropologist Christopher Boehm explored human conflict and moral origins". University of Southern California. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
- ^ "usc""Mountain Serbs in Montenegro". Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- S2CID 28795296.
- S2CID 28795296.
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