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1 online resource (557 pages) : illustrations |
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Warfare and society : archaeological and social anthropological perspectives / Ton Otto, Henrik Thrane, and Helle Vandkilde -- Conceptions of warfare in Western thought and research : an introduction / Ton Otto -- Laying aside the spear : Hobbesian Warre and the Maussian gift / Raymond Corbey -- Aspects of war and warfare in Western philosophy and history / David Warburton -- Archaeology and war : presentations of warriors and peasants in archaeological interpretations / Helle Vandkilde -- 'Total war' and the ethnography of New Guinea / Erik Brandt -- War as practice, power, and processor : a framework for the analysis of war and social structural change / Claus Bossen -- Warfare and pre-state societies : an introduction / Helle Vandkilde -- War and peace in societies without central power : theories and perspectives / Jürg Helbling -- Fighting and feuding in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland / Nick Thorpe -- The impact of egalitarian institutions on warfare among the Enga : an ethnohistorical perspective / Polly Wiessner -- Warfare and exchange in a Melanesian society before colonial pacification : the case of Manus, Papua New Guinea / Ton Otto |
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Warfare and colonialism in the Bismarck archipelago, Papua New Guinea / Chris Gosden -- Warfare and the state : an introduction / Henrik Thrane -- War and state formation : what is the connection? / Henri Claessen -- Warrior bands, war lords, and the birth of tribes and states in the first millennium AD in Middle Europe / Heiko Steuer -- Chiefs made war and war made states? war and early state formation in Ancient Fiji and Hawaii / Claus Bossen -- Warfare in Africa : reframing state and 'culture' as factors of violent conflict / Jan Abbink -- Warfare, rituals, and mass graves : an introduction / Henrik Thrane -- Semiologies of subjugation : the ritualisation of war-prisoners in later Europeans antiquity / Miranda Aldhouse-Green -- Rebellion, combat, and massacre : a Medieval mass grave at Sandbjerg near Naestved in Denmark / Pia Bennike -- Society and the structure of violence : a story told by Middle Bronze Age human remains from central Norway / Hilde Fyllingen -- The dead of Tormarton : Bronze Age combat victims? / Richard Osgood |
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Funerary rituals and warfare in the Early Bronze Age Nitra culture of Slovakia and Moravia / Andreas Hårde -- Warfare, discourse, and identity : an introduction / Ton Otto -- Warriors and warrior institutions in Copper Age Europe / Helle Vandkilde -- From Gilgamesh to terminator : the warrior as masculine ideal, historical and contemporary perspectives / Sanimir Resic -- The (dis)comfort of conformism : post-war nationalism and coping with powerlessness in Croatian villages / Stef Jansen -- Violence and identification in a Bosnian town : an empirical critique of structural theories of violence / Torsten Kolind -- War as field and site : anthropologists, archaeologists, and the violence of Maya cultural continuities / Staffan Löfving -- Warfare, weaponry, and material culture : an introduction / Helle Vandkilde -- Swords and other weapons in the Nordic Bronze Age : technology, treatment, and contexts / Henrik Thrane -- What does the context of deposition and frequency of Bronze Age weaponry tell us about the function of weapons? / Anthony Harding -- Warfare and gender according to Homer : an archaeology of an aristocratic warrior culture / Helle Vandkilde |
| Summary |
Deals with the interrelationship between society and war seen through the analytical eyes of anthropologists and archaeologists. We need to have a better understanding of what war does to people and their societies. War produces change, and archaeologists and anthropologists are analytically equipped to pinpoint its direction, patterning, scale and content |
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Archaeology |
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Anthropology |
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Warfare |
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War |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Fremder Feind gnd |
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War and society.
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Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace.
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War and society
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Kriegführung
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Archäologie
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Ethnologie
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Krieg
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Krieg -- Archäologie.
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Archäologie -- Krieg.
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Krieg -- Ethnologie.
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Ethnologie -- Krieg.
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Krieg -- Gesellschaft -- Geschichte.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Otto, Ton.
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Thrane, Henrik
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Vandkilde, Helle.
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| ISBN |
9788779349353 |
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8779349358 |
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