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War: the anthropology of armed conflict and aggression. Edited by Morton Fried, Marvin Harris, and Robert Murphy.

Title
  1. War: the anthropology of armed conflict and aggression. Edited by Morton Fried, Marvin Harris, and Robert Murphy.
Published by
  1. Garden City, N.Y., Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press, 1968.
Author
  1. American Anthropological Association

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Additional authors
  1. Fried, Morton H. (Morton Herbert), 1923-1986
  2. Harris, Marvin, 1927-
  3. Murphy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1924-1990
  4. Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001
  5. American Museum of Natural History
Description
  1. xxii, 262 p. illus., maps.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Contains the expanded text of prepared papers and comments delivered at a symposium held on Nov. 30, 1967, in Washington, D.C., during the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
Subject
  1. War and society > Congresses
  2. Anthropology > Congresses
  3. War [MESH]
Genre/Form
  1. Conference papers and proceedings
  2. Conference papers and proceedings.
Contents
  1. The effects of warfare on the biology of the human species / Frank B. Livingstone -- The biological consequences of war / Frederick P. Thieme, discussant -- Human aggression : the need for a species-specific framework / Ralph L. Holloway Jr. -- The contribution of primate studies to the understanding of war / C.R. Carpenter, discussant -- War and disease : an anthropological perspective / Alexander Alland Jr. -- The direct and indirect biological costs of war / Benjamin D. Paul, discussant -- Hypotheses about functions of war / Andrew P. Vayda -- War and the state / Alexander Lesser, discussant -- Yanomamö social organization and warfare / Napoleon A. Chagnon -- War and our contemporary ancestors / Elman Service, discussant -- Psychological preparations for war / Anthony F.C. Wallace -- War and the dissociated personality / Stanley Diamond, discussant -- War and the draft / Sol Tax -- The draft and the United States Congress / E. Adamson Hoebel, discussant -- Alternatives to war / Margaret Mead -- Decision making on war and peace / Seymour Melman, discussant.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "Contains the expanded text of prepared papers and comments ... delivered at [a] symposium held on Nov. 30, 1967, in Washington, D.C., during the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association."
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. [239]-254.
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