War in the tribal zone : expanding states and indigenous warfare

Author(s)

• Ferguson, R. Brian
• Whitehead, Neil L.

Bibliographic Information

War in the tribal zone : expanding states and indigenous warfare

edited by R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead ; with a new preface by the editors

（School of American Research advanced seminar series）

School of American Research Press , James Currey, c1999

• : pbk
• : James Currey

Note

2nd. printing with a new preface published in 2000

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-297) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: James Currey ISBN 9780852559130

Description

In this text, the editors aim to make it impossible for researchers and theorists to treat preindustrial warfare without addressing the larger contexts within which all societies are embedded.

Table of Contents

• The violent edge of empire, R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead
• war and peace in Roman North Africa - observations and models of state-tribe interaction, D.J. Mattingly
• conquest and resistance - pre-state and state expansionism in early Sri Lankan history, R.A.L.H. Gunawardana
• Aztec and Spanish conquest in Mesoamerica, Ross Hassig
• warfare on the West African slave coast, 1650-1850, Robin Law
• tribes make states and states make tribes -warfare and the creation of colonial tribes and states in northeastern South America, Neil L. Whitehead
• beavers and muskets - Iroquois military fortunes in the face of European colonization, Thomas S. Abler
• tribe and state in a frontier mosaic - the Ashaninka of eastern Peru, Michael F. Brown and Eduardo Fernandez
• a savage encounter - western contact and the Yanomami war complex, R. Brian Ferguson
• let the bow go down, Andrew Strathern
• appendix - provisional diagrams from the advanced seminar, R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780933452800

Description

War in the Tribal Zone, the 1991 anthropology of war classic, is back in print with a new Preface by the editors. Their timely and insightful essay examines the occurrence of ethnic conflict and violence in the decade since the idea of the 'tribal zone' originally was formulated. Finding the book's analysis tragically prophetic in identifying the key dynamics that have produced the kinds of conflicts recently witnessed globally-as in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Somalia-the editors consider the political origins and cultural meanings of 'ethnic' violence in our postcolonial world.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA57652297
• ISBN:
  • 0933452802
  • 0852559135
• LCCN: 91039599
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Santa Fe, N.M.,Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xl, 303 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN497
  • DC20 : 303.6/6
  • NDC8 : 391.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : War and society -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Warfare, Primitive -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Territorial expansion -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Indigenous peoples
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00815427