Abstract
AbstractThis chapter looks at adaptationist arguments, war by nonstate people, and the archaeological record. It proceeds to where the demonic perspective does not tread, with large-scale war in the contemporary world and demonstrates a framework for understanding war, without the neo-Darwinism, an application that is perfect for paradigmatic comparison. It also talks about the Yanomami that became the type case of “primitive war” through the best-selling ethnography, The Fierce People, by Napoleon Chagnon. Chagnon portrays the Yanomami as undisturbed survivors of the Hobbesian stone age, the contemporary ancestors, with endless fighting over women and vengeance. The chapter emphasizes how the Yanomamo became the go-to case for evolutionary explanations of human war and are invoked for biologistic claims.
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Oxford University PressNew York
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