| Description |
xiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
School of American Research advanced seminar series |
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School of American Research advanced seminar series.
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| Contents |
Conference overview / Clark McCauley -- Explaining war / R. Brian Ferguson -- Motivations and material causes : on the explanation of conflict and war / Clayton Robarchek -- Reproductive and somatic conflicts of interest in the genesis of violence and warfare among tribesmen / Napoleon Chagnon -- Uneasy peace : intertribal relations in Brazil's upper Xingu / Thomas Gregor -- Raiding, trading, and tribal autonomy in insular Southeast Asia / Thomas Gibson -- The Snake Warriors - Sons of the Tiger's Teeth : a descriptive analysis of Carib warfare ca. 1500-1820 / Neil Whitehead -- Warfare and the evolution of tribal polities in the prehistoric Southwest / Jonathan Haas -- Chiefdom-level warfare as exemplified in Fiji and the Cauca Valley / Robert Carneiro |
| Summary |
The authors represent a range of different opinions about why humans engage in warfare, why wars start, and the role of war in human evolution. Warfare in cultures from several different world areas is considered. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Analysis |
Wars Sociology |
| Notes |
"A School of American Research book." |
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Papers from a seminar held in Mar. 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-235) and index |
| Subject |
Military art and science.
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| Author |
Haas, Jonathan, 1949-
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| LC no. |
89007286 |
| ISBN |
0521380421 |
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