| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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OUP E-Books
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| Contents |
Charting a new direction -- Do nonwarring societies actually exist? -- Overlooked and underappreciated : the human potential for peace -- Killer apes, cannibals, and coprolites : projecting mayhem onto the past -- The earliest evidence of war -- War and social organization : from Nomadic bands to modern states -- Seeking justices : the quest for fairness -- Man the warrior : fact or fantasy? -- Insights from the Outback : Geneva Conventions in the Australian bush -- Void if detached ... from reality : Australian "warriors," Yanomamö unokais, and lethal raiding psychology -- Returning to the evidence : life in the band -- Darwin got it right : sex differences in aggression -- A new evolutionary perspective : the Nomadic forager model -- Setting the record straight -- A macroscopic anthropological view -- Enhancing peace |
| Summary |
The classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity's first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It's an image that fits well with popular notions of our species as inherently violent, with the idea that humans are--and always have been--warlike by nature. But as Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues in Beyond War, the facts show that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. Fry points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-ga |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 322) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
War.
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Warfare, Prehistoric.
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Peace -- Social aspects
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Ethnology.
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Conflict management -- Social aspects
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armed conflicts.
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wars.
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social anthropology.
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ethnology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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Ethnology
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Peace -- Social aspects
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War
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Warfare, Prehistoric
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199718818 |
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0199718814 |
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1281163473 |
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9781281163479 |
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9786611163471 |
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6611163476 |
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9781435617223 |
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1435617223 |
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0199885869 |
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9780199885862 |
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0199725055 |
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9780199725052 |
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