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Thorough, highly informative and exhaustive study presents an exceptional collection of cases examining such topics as warfare as the business of one sex, religion as a cause of war, and war for the sake of glory. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood-revenge, and other factors in warfare among primitive peoples are also expertly examined.
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Thorough, highly informative and exhaustive study presents an exceptional collection of cases examining such topics as warfare as the business of one sex, religion as a cause of war, and war for the sake of glory. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood-revenge, and other factors in warfare among primitive peoples are also expertly examined.
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The author selects case material on conflict among "primitive societies" all over the world in order to build a inductive case that the "course of evolution reveals a growing tendency too settle disputes without recourse to arms." Originating in the 1920s as a Yale doctoral thesis, it reveals many of the prejudices of the West towards "primitive pe
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