Warfare and Society

Warfare and Society
Author: Ton Otto
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2006-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 8779349358

This book straddles the disciplines of archaeology and social anthropology. Its 25 contributions (divided into 6 sections with separate introductions) successively scrutinise the concept of war in philosophy, social theory and the history of anthropological and archaeological research; discuss warfare in pre-state and state societies; and assess its relationship to rituals, social identification and material culture.