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Societies at peace : anthropological perspectives
- Title
- Societies at peace : anthropological perspectives / edited by Signe Howell and Roy Willis.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1989.
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- Description
- ix, 250 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The essays present an exciting new approach to 'peace' and 'peacefulness' in human society. The contributors see peace as a rational and active construction of co-operating human beings, instead of passive, residual behaviour.
- Subject
- Friede, ..
- Ethnopsychology > Congresses
- Self-perception > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses
- Ethnophilosophy > Congresses
- Peaceful societies > Congresses
- Aggressiveness > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses
- Peace (Philosophy) > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses
- Aggressiveness
- Aggressiveness > Cross-cultural studies
- Ethnophilosophy
- Ethnopsychology
- Peaceful societies
- Self-perception > Cross-cultural studies
- Ethnologie
- Kulturvergleich
- Ethnopsychologie
- Kongress
- Friedensforschung
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Kulturanthropologie
- Krieg
- Friede
- Agressief gedrag
- Vrede
- Genre/Form
- Congress
- proceedings (reports)
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Actes de congrès.
- Note
- Papers originally presented at a conference in June 1986 at the University of Edinburgh.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction / Signe Howell and Roy Willis -- Hobbesian and Rousseauan images of man : autonomy and individualism in a peaceful society / Clayton A. Robarchek -- "To be angry is not to be human, but to be fearful is" : Chewong concepts of human nature / Signe Howell -- Symbolic representations of tranquility and aggression among the Buid / Thomas Gibson -- Styles of manhood : an Amazonian contrast in tranquillity and violence / Joanna Overing -- Peace and violence in Bali : culture and social organization / L.E.A. Howe -- The non-violent Zapotec / Carl W. O'Nell -- The "peace puzzle" in Ufipa / Roy Willis -- "You only live in your body" : peace, exchange and the siege mentality in Ulster / Anthony D. Buckley -- Child in society, and society in children : the nature of basic trust / Colwyn Trevarthen and Katerina Logotheti -- Sociality, not aggression, is the key human trait / Michael Carrithers -- "Peace" / Alan Campbell -- Identifying peaceful societies / Paul Heelas.
- ISBN
- 0415018242
- 9780415018241
- 0415018250
- 9780415018258
- LCCN
- 88030271
- OCLC
- ocm18629049
- 18629049
- SCSB-1728734
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library