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Indoctrinability, Ideology and Warfare : Evolutionary Perspectives / ed. by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1998]Copyright date: 1998Description: 1 online resource (450 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789203950
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 21
LOC classification:
  • HM291 .I537 1998
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION -- PART I EVOLUTIONARY PRECURSORS AND MODELS -- CHAPTER TWO. US AND THE OTHERS: THE FAMILIAL ROOTS OF ETHNONATIONALISM -- CHAPTER THREE. WAR AND PEACEMAKING: THE FUSION OF TWO NEIGHBORING CAPTIVE MONKEY COLONIES -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN ULTRASOCIALITY -- CHAPTER FIVE. NOTIONS OF NATURE, CULTURE, AND THE SOURCES OF INDOCTRINABILITY -- PART II TRADITIONAL CULTURES -- CHAPTER SIX. INDOCTRINATION AMONG THE EIPO OF THE HIGHLANDS OF WEST-NEW GUINEA -- CHAPTER SEVEN. INDOCTRINABILITY AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIALLY DEFINED KINSHIP -- CHAPTER EIGHT. THE POLITICS OF PEACE IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES: THE ADAPTIVE RATIONALE BEHIND CORROBOREE AND CALUMET -- PART III INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORAL MECHANISMS -- CHAPTER NINE. PREJUDICE AND INFERENTIAL COMMUNICATION: A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD PROBLEM -- CHAPTER TEN. SEX AND GENDER IN ADVERTISEMENTS: INDOCTRINATION AND EXPLOITATION -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE ROLE OF SEX AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSE IN INDOCTRINABILITY: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE “RALLY ’ROUND THE FLAG” EFFECT -- CHAPTER TWELVE. IDEOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATION -- PART IV SYMBOLISM -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. ART AND INDOCTRINATION: FROM THE BIBLIA PAUPERUM TO THE THIRD REICH -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. PROBING IMAGES OF POLITICIANS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: CREATING PICTURES AND STORIES OF THE MIND -- PART V GROUP PROCESSES -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. REINVENT YOURSELF: LABILE PSYCHOSOCIAL IDENTITY AND THE LIFESTYLEMARKETPLACE -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. INDOCTRINATION AND GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES: THE CASE OF JUDAISM -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. GENETIC SIMILARITY THEORY, ETHNOCENTRISM, AND GROUP SELECTION -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. ETHNOCENTRISM VS. PRAGMATISM IN THE CONDUCT OF HUMAN AFFAIRS -- PART VI INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS -- CHAPTER NINETEEN. IDEOLOGY, INDOCTRINATION, AND NONCOGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF BELIEF IN LEGITIMACY: A BIOBEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS OF LEGITIMATE VIOLENT SOCIAL ACTION -- CHAPTER TWENTY. INDOCTRINATION AS INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSUASION: ITS LIMITED VARIABILITY AND CROSS-CULTURAL EVOLUTION -- CHAPTER TWENTY ONE. ON THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL COMMUNITIES: THE PARADOX OF EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE IN THE 1980S -- INDEX OF PERSONS -- SUBJECT INDEX
Summary: Violent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer to the question of why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies that lead to inter-group hostility has so far been found. In this volume an international team of leading scientists from many different fields approach this complex issue from a biological perspective, treating indoctrinability as a predisposition that has its roots in humanity's evolutionary past.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION -- PART I EVOLUTIONARY PRECURSORS AND MODELS -- CHAPTER TWO. US AND THE OTHERS: THE FAMILIAL ROOTS OF ETHNONATIONALISM -- CHAPTER THREE. WAR AND PEACEMAKING: THE FUSION OF TWO NEIGHBORING CAPTIVE MONKEY COLONIES -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN ULTRASOCIALITY -- CHAPTER FIVE. NOTIONS OF NATURE, CULTURE, AND THE SOURCES OF INDOCTRINABILITY -- PART II TRADITIONAL CULTURES -- CHAPTER SIX. INDOCTRINATION AMONG THE EIPO OF THE HIGHLANDS OF WEST-NEW GUINEA -- CHAPTER SEVEN. INDOCTRINABILITY AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIALLY DEFINED KINSHIP -- CHAPTER EIGHT. THE POLITICS OF PEACE IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES: THE ADAPTIVE RATIONALE BEHIND CORROBOREE AND CALUMET -- PART III INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORAL MECHANISMS -- CHAPTER NINE. PREJUDICE AND INFERENTIAL COMMUNICATION: A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD PROBLEM -- CHAPTER TEN. SEX AND GENDER IN ADVERTISEMENTS: INDOCTRINATION AND EXPLOITATION -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE ROLE OF SEX AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSE IN INDOCTRINABILITY: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE “RALLY ’ROUND THE FLAG” EFFECT -- CHAPTER TWELVE. IDEOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATION -- PART IV SYMBOLISM -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. ART AND INDOCTRINATION: FROM THE BIBLIA PAUPERUM TO THE THIRD REICH -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. PROBING IMAGES OF POLITICIANS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: CREATING PICTURES AND STORIES OF THE MIND -- PART V GROUP PROCESSES -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. REINVENT YOURSELF: LABILE PSYCHOSOCIAL IDENTITY AND THE LIFESTYLEMARKETPLACE -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. INDOCTRINATION AND GROUP EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES: THE CASE OF JUDAISM -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. GENETIC SIMILARITY THEORY, ETHNOCENTRISM, AND GROUP SELECTION -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. ETHNOCENTRISM VS. PRAGMATISM IN THE CONDUCT OF HUMAN AFFAIRS -- PART VI INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS -- CHAPTER NINETEEN. IDEOLOGY, INDOCTRINATION, AND NONCOGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF BELIEF IN LEGITIMACY: A BIOBEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS OF LEGITIMATE VIOLENT SOCIAL ACTION -- CHAPTER TWENTY. INDOCTRINATION AS INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSUASION: ITS LIMITED VARIABILITY AND CROSS-CULTURAL EVOLUTION -- CHAPTER TWENTY ONE. ON THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL COMMUNITIES: THE PARADOX OF EASTERN AND WESTERN EUROPE IN THE 1980S -- INDEX OF PERSONS -- SUBJECT INDEX

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Violent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer to the question of why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies that lead to inter-group hostility has so far been found. In this volume an international team of leading scientists from many different fields approach this complex issue from a biological perspective, treating indoctrinability as a predisposition that has its roots in humanity's evolutionary past.

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