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Warfare and society : archaeological and social anthropological perspectives / edited by Ton Otto, Henrik Thrane, and Helle Vandkilde.

Contributor(s): Otto, Ton | Thrane, Henrik | Vandkilde, Helle
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Aarhus, Denmark ; Oakville, Conn. : Aarhus University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 557 pages : illustrations ; 31 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 8779341101 (alk. paper); 9788779341104 (alk. paper)Subject(s): War and societyDDC classification: 303.6/6 LOC classification: GN497 | .W37 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 --
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 --
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.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West GN497 .W37 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903114201

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --

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 --

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.

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