Monday, July 22, 2013

Douglas Fry on War

War not part of human nature: Science study
Murders were far more common for personal reasons than tribal conflict in modern hunter-gatherer cultures, anthropologist Douglas Fry found, suggesting early humans weren’t prone to go to war until civilization came around.

Is it natural for humans to make war? New study of tribal societies reveals conflict is an alien concept

More ammo for the anarcho-primmitivists.

I would love to read about what sort of practices existed within the tribe and between tribes for mediating disputes and questions of honor - rituals of formalized aggression?

Lethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War by Douglas P. Fry and Patrik Söderberg

Latest Skirmish Over Ancestral Violence Strikes Blow for Peace by Elizabeth Culotta

Related:
Life Without War
Worlds Without War
Beyond War - OUP
War, Peace, and Human Nature

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