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BL
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1012234
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b766604
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| Title & Author
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War in the tribal zone : : expanding states and indigenous warfare /\ edited by R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead.
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| Publication Statement
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Sante Fe, N.M. :: School of American Research Press ;[Seattle, Wash.] :: [Distributed by the University of Washington Press],, [©1992]
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| Series Statement
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School of American Research advanced seminar series
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| Page. NO
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xiv, 303 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0933452799
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: 0933452802
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: 9780933452794
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: 9780933452800
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-297) and index.
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| Abstract
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Affected or even caused by the presence of European or other colonial states. War in the Tribal Zone is a thought-provoking presentation of nine case studies of indigenous warfare, ranging in time from the expansion of the ancient Roman Empire in North Africa to late twentieth-century intertribal violence in Highland Papua New Guinea, and geographically from Sri Lanka to the Americas. In this volume, anthropologists and historians from around the world look at and.
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Compare the impact of expanding states on tribal conflict. From their cross-cultural investigation, the authors have developed a ground-breaking approach to the study of indigenous warfare, one that places tribal societies within the context of a larger and more complex social universe. The result is a radical reinterpretation of ethnographic reality as it relates to tribal warfare and patterns of tribe-state interaction.
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Native warfare has long been accepted by anthropologists as the product of local culture, an indigenous expression of "warlike" peoples. It has most often been examined ahistorically and outside of any broader social context, within an "ethnographic present" that assumes the existence of a pristine precontact culture. But recent critical reevaluation of the history and patterns of violence among indigenous peoples indicates that much native warfare has been strongly.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Military art and science, Cross-cultural studies.
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War and society, Cross-cultural studies.
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Guerre et société-- Études trans-culturelles.
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Guerre préhistorique-- Études transculturelles.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Expansionspolitik
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Geschichte
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Guerre primitive-- Études transculturelles.
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Guerre-- Aspect social-- Études transculturelles.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Indigenous peoples.
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Kolonialismus
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Kongress
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Military art and science, Cross-cultural studies.
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Military art and science.
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Naturvolk
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War and society, Cross-cultural studies.
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War and society.
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War-- History, Cross-cultural studies.
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Krieg.
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Grondbezit.
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Inheemse volken.
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Oorlogvoering.
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Tribale groepen.
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Europa.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.6/6
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| LC Classification
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GN497.W28 1992
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| NLM classification
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73.46bcl
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| Added Entry
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Ferguson, R. Brian.
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Whitehead, Neil L.
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