Warfare in Cultural Context: Practice, Agency, and the Archaeology of Violence

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Editors: Nielsen, Axel E. and Walker, William H.

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good to Very Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Appears unused.  Dust Jacket: Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: “Warfare scholars have proposed a host of material and biological factors that could be responsible for intergroup violence, from population pressure and environmental stress to the search for economic or political gains in the form of land, prey animals, labor, mates, trade goods, tribute, power or prestige.  Some authors think that certain social structures tend to generate conflict, while others see the roots of war in human (or male) dispositions born out of the evolutionary history of our species.  These factors may be combined in complex, multivariate models whose predictive value, however, is hard to assess given the absence of an unambiguous causal hierarchy.”  (From the Introduction)  “WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’.  Say it again.”  (Edwin Starr)