Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships

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Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships

Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; [with a foreword by Steven Pinker]

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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"The social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contact sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning"

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-342) and index

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