War, its causes and correlates
1975, 1st edition. The Hague : Mouton. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Spine uniformly sun-toned. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391457
ISBN: 9027976597
Series: World Anthropology. Physical description: xviii, 813 pages, 2 unnumbered pages leaves of plates : illustrations. Notes: "Organized under the aegis of the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences." Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: pt. 1. Introduction : War research. Welcome and opening remarks / Irwin Press -- War : another fact of human revolution / Horace R. Carby-Samuels -- The role of anthropology in the world crises / Ghaus Ansari -- Sociological perspectives on the etiology of war / Ruth Harriet Jacobs -- Approaches to peace research / Anatol Rapaport -- Theories of war causation : a matrix for analysis / Berenice A. Carroll and Clinton F. Fink -- Definitions / Martin A. Nettleship -- The concept and forms of competition / Cara E. Richards -- pt. 2. Psychological and psychiatric considerations of the etiology of war. The species-specific framework of man and its evolution / Daniel Krakauer -- Institutionalized forms of intergenerational male aggression / Maurice N. Walsh and Barbara G. Scandalis -- Clothing and power abuse / U.R. von Ehrenfels -- Some psychiatric considerations on the etiology of war / Robert Cancro -- Personal, social, and international violence / J.P. Scott.
pt. 3. The biological and cultural evolution of war. An evolutionary theory of the causes of war / Clarence W. Young -- The biological factor in the etiology of war : a medical view / Norman Macdonald -- The role of competition and cooperation in human evolution / Robert Bigelow -- Aggression in nonhuman primates : implications for understanding human behavior / R. Dale Givens -- Aggression in the!Ko-Bushmen / I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt -- Wild chimpanzees using clubs in fighting an animated stuffed leopard / A. Kortlandt -- Evidence of warfare in the Near East from 10,000-4,300 B.C. / Marilyn Keyes Roper -- Warfare and the disappearance of Meroe : a preliminary application of cross-cultural findings to Nile archaeology / Rose Oldfield Hayes -- An evolutionary paradigm for the study of human aggression / Peter A. Corning -- pt. 4. The ecology of the etiology of war. A description of certain features of Prodromal War / Anderson Nettleship -- War as part of social pollution / A.H. Esser -- Ecology, economy, and warfare in lowland South America / Robert V. Morey, Jr. and John P. Marwit -- Yuman warfare : an analysis of ecological factors from ethnohistorical sources / Edward E. Graham -- Life in a pressure cooker : man at the turn of the century, 2001 / Kenneth Cooper.pt. 5. War in complex societies. Capitalism, colonialism and war : an evolutionary perspective / Anthony Leeds -- Patron-client structures, world organization, and war / Clifton Amsbury -- Domestic social structure and international warfare / Manus I. Midlarsky and Stafford T. Thomas -- The termination of peace as a consequence of institutionalization/ Matthew Melko -- Circumstances under which civil war comes into existence / H. Claessen -- Danish colonialism in the West Indies : a case of transculturation failure / Polly Pope -- pt. 6. War : its meaning and its control. Cultural variability in the structuring of violence / M. Estellie Smith -- Defending the cosmos : violence and social order among the Anggor of New Guinea / Peter Birkett Huber -- Jivaro head hunters in a headless time / Henning Siverts -- Wars without conflict / Richard W. Howell -- Warfare regulation : a cross-cultural test of hypotheses / Stanton K. Tefft -- War, peace and international law / Rolando Tamayo y Salmorán -- Conflict and entertainment : an analysis of social gatherings and celebrations among Moroccan immigrants in Israel / Moshe Shokeid -- War, combative sports, and aggression : a preliminary causal model of cultural patterning / Richard G. Sipes. Appendix: The Pre-Congress conference. Program of the Pre-Congress Conference, University of Notre Dame, 28-31 August, 1973 -- List of conference participants -- Summary prepared by members of the Pre-Congress Conference "War: its causes and correlates" -- General remarks from conference participants, conference and IXth ICAES Congress session audiences. Subjects: Fremder Feind; War; Congresses.War; HISTORY Military; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Military Science; War.
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