TY  - CHAP
AB  - Sungusungu non-state justice organizations in Tanzania exemplify large-scale cooperation. Sungusungu third-party enforcers protect property and resolve interpersonal disputes for ethnic Sukuma and individuals from other ethnic groups who have joined the hierarchically structured organizations. We use ethnographic and experimental data to highlight the importance of institutional forces when attempting to understand patterns of large-scale cooperation. We acknowledge the usefulness of considering micro-economic theories (e.g. costly signaling theory) to understand Sungusungu, but show that social institutions and a human predisposition to act as a “strong reciprocator” are important mechanisms to explain both the origins and maintenance of Sungusungu cooperation.
VL  - 23
SN  - 978-1-84950-255-9, 978-0-76231-082-1/0190-1281
DO  - 10.1016/S0190-1281(04)23005-0
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(04)23005-0
AU  - Paciotti Brian
AU  - Hadley Craig
ED  - Michael Alvard
PY  - 2004
Y1  - 2004/01/01
TI  - LARGE-SCALE COOPERATION AMONG SUNGUSUNGU “VIGILANTES” OF TANZANIA: CONCEPTUALIZING MICRO-ECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES
T2  - Socioeconomic Aspects of Human Behavioral Ecology
T3  - Research in Economic Anthropology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 119
EP  - 147
Y2  - 2024/09/19
ER  -