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War, its Causes and Correlates / ed. by Martin A. Nettleship, Dale Givens.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1975Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (814 p.) : 3 plates with 12 photos. Num. fig. tabContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027976598
  • 9783110810523
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.02
LOC classification:
  • U21.2 ǂb P62 1973eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- PART ONE. Introduction: War Research -- Introduction -- Welcome and Opening Remarks -- War: Another Fact of Human Evolution -- The Role of Anthropology in the World Crises -- Sociological Perspectives on the Etiology of War -- Approaches to Peace Research -- Theories of War Causation: A Matrix for Analysis -- Definitions -- The Concept and Forms of Competition -- PART TWO. Psychological and Psychiatric Considerations of the Etiology of War -- Introduction -- The Species-Specific Framework of Man and Its Evolution -- Institutionalized Forms of Intergenerational Male Aggression -- Clothing and Power Abuse -- Some Psychiatric Considerations on the Etiology of War -- Personal, Social, and International Violence -- PART THREE. The Biological and Cultural Evolution of War -- Introduction -- An Evolutionary Theory of the Causes of War -- The Biological Factor in the Etiology of War: A Medical View -- The Role of Competition and Cooperation in Human Evolution -- Aggression in Nonhuman Primates: Implications for Understanding Human Behavior -- Aggression in the! Ko-Bushmen -- Wild Chimpanzees Using Clubs in Fighting an Animated Stuffed Leopard -- Evidence of Warfare in the Near East from 10,000-4,300 B.C. -- Warfare and the Disappearance of Meroe: A Preliminary Application of Cross-Cultural Findings to Nile Archaeology -- An Evolutionary Paradigm for the Study of Human Aggression -- PART FOUR. The Ecology of the Etiology of War -- Introduction -- A Description of Certain Features of Prodromal War -- War as Part of Social Pollution -- Ecology, Economy, and Warfare in Lowland South America -- Yuman Warfare: An Analysis of Ecological Factors from Ethnohistorical Sources -- Life in a Pressure Cooker: Man at the Turn of the Century, 2001 -- PART FIVE. War in Complex Societies -- Introduction -- Capitalism, Colonialism and War: An Evolutionary Perspective -- Patron-Client Structures, World Organization, and War -- Domestic Social Structure and International Warfare -- The Termination of Peace as a Consequence of Institutionalization -- Circumstances Under Which Civil War Comes Into Existence -- Danish Colonialism in the West Indies: A Case of Transculturation Failure -- PART SIX. War: Its Meaning and Its Control -- Introduction -- Cultural Variability in the Structuring of Violence -- Defending the Cosmos: Violence and Social Order Among the Anggor of New Guinea -- Jivaro Head Hunters in a Headless Time -- Wars Without Conflict -- Warfare Regulation: A Cross-Cultural Test of Hypotheses -- War, Peace, and International Law -- Conflict and Entertainment: An Analysis of Social Gatherings and Celebrations among Moroccan Immigrants in Israel -- War, Combative Sports, and Aggression: A Preliminary Causal Model of Cultural Patterning -- APPENDIX: The Pre-Congress Conference -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- PART ONE. Introduction: War Research -- Introduction -- Welcome and Opening Remarks -- War: Another Fact of Human Evolution -- The Role of Anthropology in the World Crises -- Sociological Perspectives on the Etiology of War -- Approaches to Peace Research -- Theories of War Causation: A Matrix for Analysis -- Definitions -- The Concept and Forms of Competition -- PART TWO. Psychological and Psychiatric Considerations of the Etiology of War -- Introduction -- The Species-Specific Framework of Man and Its Evolution -- Institutionalized Forms of Intergenerational Male Aggression -- Clothing and Power Abuse -- Some Psychiatric Considerations on the Etiology of War -- Personal, Social, and International Violence -- PART THREE. The Biological and Cultural Evolution of War -- Introduction -- An Evolutionary Theory of the Causes of War -- The Biological Factor in the Etiology of War: A Medical View -- The Role of Competition and Cooperation in Human Evolution -- Aggression in Nonhuman Primates: Implications for Understanding Human Behavior -- Aggression in the! Ko-Bushmen -- Wild Chimpanzees Using Clubs in Fighting an Animated Stuffed Leopard -- Evidence of Warfare in the Near East from 10,000-4,300 B.C. -- Warfare and the Disappearance of Meroe: A Preliminary Application of Cross-Cultural Findings to Nile Archaeology -- An Evolutionary Paradigm for the Study of Human Aggression -- PART FOUR. The Ecology of the Etiology of War -- Introduction -- A Description of Certain Features of Prodromal War -- War as Part of Social Pollution -- Ecology, Economy, and Warfare in Lowland South America -- Yuman Warfare: An Analysis of Ecological Factors from Ethnohistorical Sources -- Life in a Pressure Cooker: Man at the Turn of the Century, 2001 -- PART FIVE. War in Complex Societies -- Introduction -- Capitalism, Colonialism and War: An Evolutionary Perspective -- Patron-Client Structures, World Organization, and War -- Domestic Social Structure and International Warfare -- The Termination of Peace as a Consequence of Institutionalization -- Circumstances Under Which Civil War Comes Into Existence -- Danish Colonialism in the West Indies: A Case of Transculturation Failure -- PART SIX. War: Its Meaning and Its Control -- Introduction -- Cultural Variability in the Structuring of Violence -- Defending the Cosmos: Violence and Social Order Among the Anggor of New Guinea -- Jivaro Head Hunters in a Headless Time -- Wars Without Conflict -- Warfare Regulation: A Cross-Cultural Test of Hypotheses -- War, Peace, and International Law -- Conflict and Entertainment: An Analysis of Social Gatherings and Celebrations among Moroccan Immigrants in Israel -- War, Combative Sports, and Aggression: A Preliminary Causal Model of Cultural Patterning -- APPENDIX: The Pre-Congress Conference -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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