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'...contains a number of very important articles that will add significantly to the literature on the anthropology of warfare in tribal societies. This is a volume that scholars will buy and study.'.
–Jonathan Haas of Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
'The major strength of Studying War is the large amount of material on the topic to be found here. I can include its ideas in my lectures and writings immediately.'.
–Ronald Cohen of University of Florida, Gainesville
'This ambitious attempt to bring together theory and ethnography is an interesting and useful contribution to our understanding of the nature of war.'.
–Arthur Waldron of U. S. Naval War College and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
–Jonathan Haas of Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
'The major strength of Studying War is the large amount of material on the topic to be found here. I can include its ideas in my lectures and writings immediately.'.
–Ronald Cohen of University of Florida, Gainesville
'This ambitious attempt to bring together theory and ethnography is an interesting and useful contribution to our understanding of the nature of war.'.
–Arthur Waldron of U. S. Naval War College and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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War is a central fact of human history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kin militia, predation zone, uncentralized polities, predatory accumulation, socialization for mistrust, warfare frequency, consensual forces, chiefly militias, mature empires, aristocratic armies, indigenous warfare, dominant empire, nonstate societies, archaic states, tribal polities, tribal zone, sociocultural evolution, steppe nomads, hegemonic modes, egalitarian peoples, organized means, studying war, sedentary states, centralized societies, structural history Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Guinea, Nyae Nyae, Cambridge University Press, Chad Basin, Dala Birni, Abd Allah, Academic Press, Chinggis Khan, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Behavior Science Research, American Anthropologist, United States, Garden City, Natural History Press, School of American Research Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Bahr Erguig, Current Anthropology, Northwest Coast, Megan Biesele, New Haven, World War New!
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War is a central fact of human history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kin militia, predation zone, uncentralized polities, predatory accumulation, socialization for mistrust, warfare frequency, consensual forces, chiefly militias, mature empires, aristocratic armies, indigenous warfare, dominant empire, nonstate societies, archaic states, tribal polities, tribal zone, sociocultural evolution, steppe nomads, hegemonic modes, egalitarian peoples, organized means, studying war, sedentary states, centralized societies, structural history Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Guinea, Nyae Nyae, Cambridge University Press, Chad Basin, Dala Birni, Abd Allah, Academic Press, Chinggis Khan, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Behavior Science Research, American Anthropologist, United States, Garden City, Natural History Press, School of American Research Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Bahr Erguig, Current Anthropology, Northwest Coast, Megan Biesele, New Haven, World War New!
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- The Anthropology of War (School of American Research Advanced Seminars) by Jonathan Haas on 8 pages
- The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas on 4 pages
- Cultural Anthropology (6th Edition) by Marvin Harris on page 61, page 62, and page 65
- Study Guide for Cultural Anthropology, 5th edition by Michael Harris on page 61, page 62, and page 65
- Primitive Society by Robert H Lowie on page 63, and page 126
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- Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past (War and Society) by David W. Frayer in Front Matter, and page 19
- The State, Identity and Violence: Political Disintegration in the Post-Cold War World (War and Society) by R. Brian Ferguson in Front Matter, and page 283
- Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies Around the World (War and Society) by Graham Kemp in Front Matter
- Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century by Pamela R. Frese in Back Matter
- Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development by Manus I. Midlarsky in Back Matter
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