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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1975
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (814 p.) :; 3 plates with 12 photos. Num. fig. tab.
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Other title: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 --
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 --
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 --
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 --
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 --
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
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110810523
9783110637922
DOI:10.1515/9783110810523
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Martin A. Nettleship, Dale Givens.