Table of contents - Special Issue: Hunter-gatherer aggression and peace
Violence, fear and anti-violence: the Batek of Peninsular Malaysia
Ivan Tacey, Diana RiboliThe purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze socio-cultural and political forces which have shaped anti-violent attitudes and strategies of the Batek and Batek Tanum of…
Hunter-gatherers on the best-seller list: Steven Pinker and the “Bellicose School's” treatment of forager violence
Richard B. LeeThe question of violence in hunter-gatherer society has animated philosophical debates since at least the seventeenth century. Steven Pinker has sought to affirm that…
War and peace among Kalahari San
Mathias GuentherThe purpose of this paper is to explain the discrepancy between ethnohistorical accounts on north-western Kalahari San of the nineteenth to early twentieth century and recent…
War, peace and Northwest Coast complex hunter-gatherers
Richard H. DalyThe purpose of this paper is to question the assumptions behind the aggressive competitive image of Northwest Coast (NWC) forager societies, given that their most reflective…
Myths about hunter-gatherers redux: nomadic forager war and peace
Douglas P. Fry, Patrik SöderbergThe purpose of this paper is to critique several studies that claim to show that nomadic foragers engage in high levels of inter-group aggression. This is done through exploring…
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1759-6599e-ISSN:
2042-8715ISSN-L:
1759-6599Online date, start – end:
2009Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Associate Prof Philip Birch