The Anthropology of War

The book brings together a group of authors who are addressing the nature and causes of warfare in simpler, tribal societies. The authors represent a range of different opinions about why humans engage in warfare, why wars start, and the role of war in human evolution.

Inhalt
List of contributors; Preface; 1. Conference overview Clark McCauley; 2. Explaining war R. Brian Ferguson; 3. Motivations and material causes on the explanation of conflict and war Clayton Robarchek; 4. Reproductive and somatic conflicts of interest in the genesis of violence and warfare among tribesmen Napolean Chagnon; 5. Uneasy peace: intertribal relations in Brazil's Upper Xingu Thomas Gregor; 6. Raiding, trading, and tribal autonomy in insular Southeast Asia Thomas Gibson; 7. The Snake Warriors - Sons of the Tiger's Teeth: a descriptive analysis of Carib warfare ca. 1500 1820 Neil Whitehead; 8. Warfare and the evolution of tribal politics in the prehistoric Southwest Jonathan Haas; 9. Chiefdom-level warfare as exemplified in Fiji and the Cauca Valley Robert Carneiro; References; Index.

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