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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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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
1996.
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Table des matières:
- 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.
- 11. Beating Swords into Metaphors: The Roots of the Pacified Past12. A Trout in the Milk: Discussion and Conclusions; Appendix: Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index.