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"Contains the expanded text of prepared papers and comments ... delivered at [a] symposium held on Nov. 30, 1967, in Washington, D.C., during the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association." Bibliography: p. [239]-254 The effects of warfare on the biology of the human species / Frank B. Livingstone -- The biological consequences of war / Frederick P. Thieme, discussant -- Human aggression : the need for a species-specific framework / Ralph L. Holloway Jr. -- The contribution of primate studies to the understanding of war / C.R. Carpenter, discussant -- War and disease : an anthropological perspective / Alexander Alland Jr. -- The direct and indirect biological costs of war / Benjamin D. Paul, discussant -- Hypotheses about functions of war / Andrew P. Vayda -- War and the state / Alexander Lesser, discussant -- Yanomamö social organization and warfare / Napoleon A. Chagnon -- War and our contemporary ancestors / Elman Service, discussant -- Psychological preparations for war / Anthony F.C. Wallace -- War and the dissociated personality / Stanley Diamond, discussant -- War and the draft / Sol Tax -- The draft and the United States Congress / E. Adamson Ho

Author

Morton Fried, Marvin Harris, and Robert Murphy

Publisher

Garden City, N.Y., Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press

Published

1968

Language

EN

Subjects

Military, Sociology, Government_military