War before civilization / Lawrence H. Keeley.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- The pacified past: the anthropology of war
- The dogs of war: the prevalence and importance of war
- Policy by other means" tactics and weapons
- Imitating the tiger: forms of combat
- A skulking way of war: primitive warriors versus civilized soldiers
- The harvest of Mars: the casualties of war
- To the victor: the profits and losses of primitive war
- Crying havoc: the question of causes
- Bad neighborhoods: the contexts for war
- Naked, poor, and mangled peace: its desirability and fragility
- Beating swords into metaphors: the roots of the pacified past
- A trout in the milk: discussion and conclusions.