Beyond War The Human Potential for Peace

Name: Beyond War The Human Potential for Peace
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ISBN: 9780195384611

ISBN-10: 019538461X

ISBN-13: 9780195384611

Edition: 2009

Authors: Douglas P. Fry

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A profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a hopeful prognosis for a future without war. Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. He points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-gatherer groups, egalitarian bands where warfare was a rarity. Drawing on archaeology and fascinating recent fieldwork on hunter-gatherer bands from around the world, Fry debunks the idea that war is ancient and inevitable. For instance, among Aboriginal Australians, warfare was an extreme anomaly. Fry also points out that even today, when war…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.12" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Douglas P. Fry teaches in the Faculty of Social and Caring Sciences at Abo Akademi University in Finland and is an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. A renowned anthropologist and a leading authority on aggression, conflict, and conflict resolution, he has worked in this field for over twenty-five years and has published many articles and books on this subject.



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments



Charting a New Direction



Do Nonwarring Societies Actually Exist?



Overlooked and Underappreciated: The Human Potential for Peace



Killer Apes, Cannibals, and Coprolites: Projecting Mayhem onto the Past



The Earliest Evidence of War



War and Social Organization: From Nomadic Bands to Modern States



Seeking Justice: The Quest for Fairness



Man the Warrior: Fact or Fantasy?



Insights from the Outback: Geneva Conventions in the Australian Bush



Void if Detached...from Reality: Australian "Warriors," Yanomamï¿½ Unokais, and Lethal Raiding Psychology



Returning to the Evidence: Life in the Band



Darwin Got It Right: Sex Differences in Aggression



A New Evolutionary Perspective: The Nomadic Forager Model



Setting the Record Straight



A Macroscopic Anthropological View



Enhancing Peace



Organizations to Contact



Nonwarring Societies


Notes


Suggested Reading


Index