Niccolo Leo Caldararo Livres

Exploring the evolution of large brains, the book delves into the relationship between brain size and complex social behaviors in humans and other animals. It highlights the development of brain functions in social species while providing insights into the historical contexts that shaped the human brain. Through comparative analysis, it reveals how social structures influence cognitive abilities and the evolutionary advantages of enhanced brain capacity.

Through in-depth analysis and narrative investigation of an actual building occupation, Niccolo Caldararo seeks to not only offer an historical account of the Goodman Building in San Francisco, but also focus on the active resistance tactics of its residents from the 1960s to the 1980s. Taking as its focal point the building itself, the volume weaves in and out of every life involved and the struggles that surround it-San Francisco's urban renewal, ethnic clearing, gentrification, and municipal governance at a time of booming urban growth. Caldararo, a tenant at the center of its strikes and activities, provides a unique perspective that counteracts current trends in ethnographies of urban movements by grounding its analysis in physical and tangible space

By bringing together economic anthropology, ecology, and culture history, The Anthropology of Complex Economic Systems not only proposes a new model of human social evolution, but equally importantly creates a methodology for speaking to, and against, our present economic and environmental situation.