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Warfare in Cultural Context: Practice, Agency, and the Archaeology of Violence (Amerind Studies in Archaeology) by Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Warfare in Cultural Context: Practice, Agency, and the Archaeology of Violence (Amerind Studies in Archaeology) about?

<p>Warfare is a constant in human history. According to the contributors to this volume, archaeologists have assumed that—within certain socioenvironmental parameters—war is always essentially the same phenomenon and follows a common logic, breaking out under similar conditions and having analogous effects on the people involved. In pursuit of this idea, archaeologists have built models to account for the occurrence of war in various times and places. The models are then tested against prehistoric evidence to make the causes and conduct of war predictable and data-based.</p> <p>However, contributors argue, this model-and-evidence approach has given rise to multiple competing hypotheses and ambiguity rather than to full, coherent explanations of what turns out to be surprisingly complex acts of war. The chapters in Warfare in Cultural Context contend that agency and culture, inherited values and dispositions (such as religion and other cultural practices), beliefs, and institutions are always woven into the conduct of war.</p> <p>This revealing book focuses on the ways that specific people construed their interests and life projects, and their problems and possibilities, and consequ

Author

Axel E. Nielsen and William H. Walker

Publisher

Tucson: University of Arizona Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816531028

Subjects

Sociology, History, Humanities