| Description |
xiv, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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School of American Research advanced seminar series |
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School of American Research advanced seminar series.
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| Contents |
The violent edge of empire / R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead -- War and peace in Roman North Africa / D. J. Mattingly -- Conquest and resistance / R.A.L.H. Gunawardana -- Aztec and Spanish conquest in Mesoamerica / Ross Hassig -- Warfare on the West African slave coast, 1650-1850 / Robin Law -- Tribes make states and states make tribes / Neil L. Whitehead -- Beavers and muskets / Thomas S. Abler -- Tribe and state in a frontier mosaic / Michael F. Brown and Eduardo Fernandez -- A savage encounter / R. Brian Ferguson -- Let the bow go down / Andrew Strathern |
| Summary |
Affected or even caused by the presence of European or other colonial states. War in the Tribal Zone is a thought-provoking presentation of nine case studies of indigenous warfare, ranging in time from the expansion of the ancient Roman Empire in North Africa to late twentieth-century intertribal violence in Highland Papua New Guinea, and geographically from Sri Lanka to the Americas. In this volume, anthropologists and historians from around the world look at and |
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Compare the impact of expanding states on tribal conflict. From their cross-cultural investigation, the authors have developed a ground-breaking approach to the study of indigenous warfare, one that places tribal societies within the context of a larger and more complex social universe. The result is a radical reinterpretation of ethnographic reality as it relates to tribal warfare and patterns of tribe-state interaction |
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Native warfare has long been accepted by anthropologists as the product of local culture, an indigenous expression of "warlike" peoples. It has most often been examined ahistorically and outside of any broader social context, within an "ethnographic present" that assumes the existence of a pristine precontact culture. But recent critical reevaluation of the history and patterns of violence among indigenous peoples indicates that much native warfare has been strongly |
| Analysis |
Indigenous peoples |
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Military art and science Cross-cultural studies |
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War and society Cross-cultural studies |
| Notes |
"With a new preface by the editors." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-297) and index |
| Subject |
Indigenous peoples.
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Military art and science -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Territorial expansion -- Cross-cultural studies
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War and society -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Author |
Ferguson, R. Brian.
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Whitehead, Neil L.
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| LC no. |
91039599 |
| ISBN |
0933452799 |
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0933452802 |
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