Warless Societies and the Origin of War

Name: Warless Societies and the Origin of War
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ISBN: 9780472067381

ISBN-10: 0472067389

ISBN-13: 9780472067381

Edition: 2000

Authors: Raymond C. Kelly

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Warless Societies and the Origin of War employs a comparative ethnographic analysis of warless and warlike hunting and gathering societies to isolate distinctive features of peaceful preagricultural people and to develop a theoretical model of the origin of war and the early coevolution of war and society. Examining key Upper Paleolithic cave paintings and burials that document lethal violence, Raymond Kelly's illumination of the transition from warlessness to warfare in several specific locales in Europe and the Middle East confounds understandings of the origin of war prevalent today. Kelly addresses fundamental questions concerning the trinity of interrelationship between human nature,…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792



Preface


Introduction



The Category of Peaceful Societies



Warless and Warlike Hunter-Gatherers: A Comparison



The Origin of War: A Transitional Case



The Early Coevolution of War and Society


Notes


Bibliography


Index