Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives

Table of contents

• Warfare and Society 2
• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• 1- Warfare and Society- Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives 9
• 2- Conceptions of Warfare in Western Thought and Research- An Introduction 23
• 3- Laying Aside the Spear- Hobbesian Warre and the Maussian Gift 29
• 4- Aspects of War and Warfare in Western Philosophy and History 37
• 5- Archaeology and War- Presentations of Warriors and Peasants in Archaeological Interpretations 57
• 6- ‘Total War’ and the Ethnography of New Guinea 75
• 7- War as Practice, Power, and Processor- A Framework for the Analysis of War and Social Structural Change 89
• 8- Warfare and Pre-State Societies- An Introduction 105
• 9- War and Peace in Societies without Central Power- Theories and Perspectives 113
• 10- Fighting and Feuding in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland 141
• 11- The Impact of Egalitarian Institutions on Warfare among the Enga- An Ethnohistorical Perspective 167
• 12- Warfare and Exchange in a Melanesian Society before Colonial Pacification- The Case of Manus, Papua New Guinea 187
• 13- Warfare and Colonialism in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea 201
• 14- Warfare and the State- An Introduction 211
• 15- War and State Formation- What Is the Connection? 217
• 16- Warrior Bands, War Lords, and the Birth of Tribes and States in the First Millennium AD in Middle Europe 227
• 17- Chiefs Made War and War Made States? War and Early State Formation in Ancient Fiji and Hawaii 237
• 18- Warfare in Africa- Reframing State and ‘Culture’ as Factors of Violent Conflict 261
• 19- Warfare, Rituals, and Mass Graves- An Introduction 275
• 20- Semiologies of Subjugation- The Ritualisation of War-Prisoners in Later European Antiquity 281
• 21- Rebellion, Combat, and Massacre- A Medieval Mass Grave at Sandbjerg near Næstved in Denmark 305
• 22- Society and the Structure of Violence- A Story Told by Middle Bronze Age Human Remains from Central Norway 319
• 23- The Dead of Tormarton- Bronze Age Combat Victims? 331
• 24- Funerary Rituals and Warfare in the Early Bronze Age Nitra Culture of Slovakia and Moravia 341
• 25- Warfare, Discourse, and Identity- An Introduction 385
• 26- Warriors and Warrior Institutions in Copper Age Europe 393
• 27- From Gilgamesh to Terminator- The Warrior as Masculine Ideal – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 423
• 28- The (Dis)Comfort of Conformism- Post-War Nationalism and Coping with Powerlessness in Croatian Villages 433
• 29- Violence and Identification in a Bosnian Town- An Empirical Critique of Structural Theories of Violence 447
• 30- War as Field and Site- Anthropologists, Archaeologists, and the Violence of Maya Cultural Continuities 469
• 31- Warfare, Weaponry, and Material Culture- An Introduction 483
• 32- Swords and Other Weapons in the Nordic Bronze Age- Technology, Treatment, and Contexts 491
• 33- What Does the Context of Deposition and Frequency of Bronze Age Weaponry Tell Us about the Function of Weapons? 505
• 34- Warfare and Gender According to Homer- An Archaeology of An Aristocratic Warrior Culture 515
• Index 529

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