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War before Civilization : the Myth of the Peaceful Savage.

The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keeley, Lawrence H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 1996.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; 1. The Pacified Past: The Anthropology of War; 2. The Dogs of War: The Prevalence and Importance of War; 3. Policy by Other Means: Tactics and Weapons; 4. Imitating the Tiger: Forms of Combat; 5. A Skulking Way of War: Primitive Warriors Versus Civilized Soldiers; 6. The Harvest of Mars: The Casualties of War; 7. To the Victor: The Profits and Losses of Primitive War; 8. Crying Havoc: The Question of Causes; 9. Bad Neighborhoods: The Contexts for War; 10. Naked, Poor, and Mangled Peace: Its Desirability and Fragility. 
505 8 |a 11. Beating Swords into Metaphors: The Roots of the Pacified Past12. A Trout in the Milk: Discussion and Conclusions; Appendix: Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
520 |a The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to this view, was little more than a ritualized game, where casualties were limited and the effects of aggression relatively mild. Lawrence Keeley's groundbreaking War Before Civilization offers a devastating rebuttal to such comfortable myths and debunks the notion that warfare was intr. 
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