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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: AMSBURY, CLIFTON,; ANSARI, GHAUS,; BIGELOW, ROBERT,; CANCRO, ROBERT,; CARBY-SAMUELS, HORACE R.,; CARROLL, BERENICE A.,; CLAESSEN, H.,; COOPER, KENNETH,; CORNING, PETER A.,; EIBL-EIBESFELDT, I.,; ESSER, A. H.,; FINK, CLINTON F.,; GIVENS, R. DALE,; GRAHAM, EDWARD E.,; HAYES, ROSE OLDFIELD,; HOWELL, RICHARD W.,; HUBER, PETER BIRKETT,; JACOBS, RUTH HARRIET,; KORTLANDT, A.,; KRAKAUER, DANIEL,; LEEDS, ANTHONY,; MACDONALD, NORMAN,; MARWITT, JOHN P.,; MELKO, MATTHEW,; MIDLARSKY, MANUS I.,; MOREY, ROBERT V.,; NETTLESHIP, ANDERSON,; NETTLESHIP, MARTIN A.,; POPE, POLLY,; PRESS, IRWIN,; RAPAPORT, ANATOL,; RICHARDS, CARA E.,; ROPER, MARILYN KEYES,; SALMORÁN, ROLANDO TAMAYO Y,; SCANDALIS, BARBARA G.,; SCOTT, J. P.,; SHOKEID, MOSHE,; SIPES, RICHARD G.,; SIVERTS, HENNING,; SMITH, M. ESTELLIE,; TEFFT, STANTON K.,; THOMAS, STAFFORD T.,; VON EHRENFELS, U. R.,; WALSH, MAURICE N.,; YOUNG, CLARENCE W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Givens, Dale,; Nettleship, Martin A.,
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (814 p.) :; 3 plates with 12 photos. Num. fig. tab.

Table of 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