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Warfare and Society : Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives

by: Otto, T. Thrane, H. Vandkilde, H.

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Category: Ancient Warfare / Military Studies
Code: 2119
ISBN-13: 9788779341104 / 978-87-7934-110-4
ISBN-10: 8779341101 / 87-7934-110-1
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Publication Date: 2006
Publication Place: Aarhus
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 557
Book Condition: New

Warfare and society : archaeological and social anthropological perspectives
Authors:Ton Otto, Henrik Thrane, Helle Vandkilde

About the book
While it may be overkill to say that studying war is hell, it is certainly problematic. To participants, war is chaos, death and boredom - and hence incommunicable. To scholars who do not know the smell of gunpowder, war is mediated by silent artefacts and layered discourse. The must muster compassion without letting it distort analysis. And despite entrenced tradtions to the contrary, war cannot be comprehended in isolation from society.

To better understand the complex relationship between war and society, the two dozen contributors to this volume employ a broad variety of archaeological and anthropological tools, drawing where appropriate on history, political science and philosophy. The chapters are grouped under several heads, each prefaced by a helpful introduction. Topics include the theoretical conceptions of war in various disciplines; war in pre-state societies, and its relation to state formation; ritual war and mass graves; ancient weaponry and material culture; and warfare, discourse and identity. The examples rage from ancient Fiji to contemporary Croatia, and from Gilgamesh to The Terminator.

The conundrum of war resists solution. But with a generous mix of theoretical argument and dramatic case study, Warfare and Society has something for anyone, academic or amateur, who would wrestle with it.

1 Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological
Perspectives · 9
Ton Otto, Henrik Thrane, and Helle Vandkilde
2 Conceptions of Warfare in Western Thought and Research:
An Introduction · 23
Ton Otto
3 Laying Aside the Spear: Hobbesian Warre and the Maussian Gift · 29
Raymond Corbey
4 Aspects of War and Warfare in Western Philosophy and History · 37
David Warburton
5 Archaeology and War: Presentations of Warriors and Peasants
in Archaeological Interpretations · 57
Helle Vandkilde
6 ?Total War? and the Ethnography of New Guinea · 75
Erik Brandt
7 War as Practice, Power, and Processor: A Framework for the Analysis
of War and Social Structural Change · 89
Claus Bossen
8 Warfare and pre-State Societies: An Introduction · 105
Helle Vandkilde
9 War and Peace in Societies without Central Power: Theories and
Perspectives · 113
Jürg Helbling
10 Fighting and Feuding in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland · 141
Nick Thorpe
11 The Impact of Egalitarian Institutions on Warfare among the Enga:
An Ethnohistorical Perspective · 167
Polly Wiessner
12 Warfare and Exchange in a Melanesian Society before Colonial
Pacification: The Case of Manus, Papua New Guinea · 187
Ton Otto
13 Warfare and Colonialism in the Bismarck Archipelago,
Papua New Guinea · 201
Chris Gosden
14 Warfare and the State: An Introduction · 211
Henrik Thrane
15 War and State Formation: What is the Connection? · 217
Henri Claessen
16 Warrior Bands, War Lords, and the Birth of Tribes and States in the First
Millennium AD in Middle Europe · 227
Heiko Steuer
17 Chiefs Made War and War Made States? War and Early State Formation
in Ancient Fiji and Hawaii · 237
Claus Bossen
18 Warfare in Africa: Reframing State and ?Culture? as Factors of Violent
Conflict · 261
Jan Abbink
19 Warfare, Rituals, and Mass Graves: An Introduction · 275
Henrik Thrane
20 Semiologies of Subjugation: The Ritualisation of War-Prisoners in Later
European Antiquity · 281
Miranda Aldhouse-Green
21 Rebellion, Combat, and Massacre: A Medieval Mass Grave at Sandbjerg
near Næstved in Denmark · 305
Pia Bennike
22 Society and the Structure of Violence: A Story Told by Middle Bronze
Age Human Remains from Central Norway · 319
Hilde Fyllingen
23 The Dead of Tormarton: Bronze Age Combat Victims? · 331
Richard Osgood
24 Funerary Rituals and Warfare in the Early Bronze Age Nitra Culture of
Slovakia and Moravia · 341
Andreas Hårde
25 Warfare, Discourse, and Identity: An Introduction · 385
Ton Otto
26 Warriors and Warrior Institutions in Copper Age Europe · 393
Helle Vandkilde
27 From Gilgamesh to Terminator: The Warrior as Masculine Ideal
– Historical and Contemporary Perspectives · 423
Sanimir Resic
28 The (Dis)Comfort of Conformism: Post-War Nationalism and Coping
with Powerlessness in Croatian Villages · 433
Stef Jansen
29 Violence and Identification in a Bosnian Town: An Empirical Critique
of Structural Theories of Violence · 447
Torsten Kolind
30 War as Field and Site: Anthropologists, Archaeologists, and the Violence
of Maya Cultural Continuities · 469
Staffan Löfving
31 Warfare, Weaponry, and Material Culture: An Introduction · 483
Helle Vandkilde
32 Swords and Other Weapons in the Nordic Bronze Age: Technology,
Treatment, and Contexts · 491
Henrik Thrane
33 What Does the Context of Deposition and Frequency of Bronze Age
Weaponry Tell Us about the Function of Weapons? · 505
Anthony Harding
34 Warfare and Gender According to Homer: An Archaeology of an
Aristocratic Warrior Culture · 515
Helle Vandkilde
Index · 529

 

 
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Warfare and Society : Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives

by: Otto, T. Thrane, H. Vandkilde, H.

  • ISBN-13: 9788779341104 / 978-87-7934-110-4
  • ISBN-03: 8779341101 / 87-7934-110-1
  • Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, 2006

Price: 85,00 EURO

1 copy in stock