Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

American Anthropological Association

Publication

Garden City, N.Y., Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press, 1968.

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Additional Authors

• Fried, Morton H. (Morton Herbert), 1923-1986
• Harris, Marvin, 1927-
• Murphy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1924-1990
• Harris, Marvin, 1927-2001
• American Museum of Natural History

Description

xxii, 262 p. illus., maps.; 24 cm.

Summary

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

• War and society > Congresses
• Anthropology > Congresses
• War [MESH]

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "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)

• Bibliography: p. [239]-254.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

LCCN

^^^68021867^//r873

OCLC

• 254182
• SCSB-11129887

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library