Table of Contents

• Figures
• Photographs
• Contributors
• Introduction—From “Groups” to “Institutions”: In Pursuit of an?Evolutionary Foundation for Human Society and Sociality?
• Kaori Kawai
• Part I: The Mechanism of the Formation of Institutions
• 1 The Formation of Institutions
• Toru Soga
• 2 An Institution Called Death: Towards Its
• Arche ?Motomitsu Uchibori
• 3 Institution and Ritualization
• Masakazu Tanaka
• 4 Children, Play, Rules: Places of Expression of Institution
• Hitoshige Hayaki
• 5 The Day Teaching Becomes Institution: An Evolutionary ?Horizon From Apes to Humans
• Hideaki Terashima
• Part II: Concrete Phases of the Emergence of Institutions
• 6 Who is the Alpha Male? The Institutionality of Dominance?Rank in Chimpanzee Society
• Hitonaru Nishie
• 7 Duality of the Mode of Coexistence and Action Selection:?Groups and the Emergence of “Institutions” in Chimpanzees?
• Noriko Itoh
• 8 When Keeping One’s Ears Open for the Distant Voices of?Others: The Process-Oriented Convention in Chimpanzees?and Institution
• Shunkichi Hanamura
• 9 Peace Building in the Wild: Thinking about Institutions from?Cases of Conflict and Peace in Sulu
• Ikuya Tokoro
• 10 Institutionalized Cattle Raiding: Its Formalization and Value?Creation Amongst the Pastoral Dodoth
• Kaori Kawai
• Part III: Theory for the Evolution of Institutions
• 11 What Connects and Separates Pre- and Post-Institution?
• Koji Kitamura
• 12 Living One’s Role Under Institution: Ecological Niches and?Animal Societies
• Kaoru Adachi
• 13 Proofs in Mathematics and the Performance of Institutions:?A Study of Evolution Starting from Kepler’s Equation?
• Naoki Kasuga
• 14 Basic Components of Institution: Understanding?Institution According to Triangular and Tetrahedral Models
• ?Takeo Funabiki
• Part IV: The Expansion of Institution Theory
• 15 The Ontology of Feeling: The Evolutionary Basis of “Natural?Institutions” in Inuit Extended Family Groups
• Keiichi Omura
• 16 The Institution of “Feeling”: On “Feeling Inside” and?“Institutionalized Envy”
• Yuko Sugiyama
• 17 Was the Old Woman’s Death a Suicide? A Discussion on the?Basis of Institutions
• Ryoko Nishii
• 18 The Evolutionary Foundations of Institutions: Rule, Deviation,?Identity
• Suehisa Kuroda
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index

About the Author

Kaori Kawai is a Japanese cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on East African anthropology. She is currently Professor at the Institute for Languages ??and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her involvement in cultural anthropological research in Kenya began in 1986, and she completed a PhD in Science at the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, in 1994. She was Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Shizuoka University, and Associate Professor at the Institute for Asian and African Languages ??and Cultures, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, before taking up her current position as Professor at the ILCAA in 2015.