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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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