Beyond war [[electronic resource] ] : the human potential for peace / / Douglas P. Fry

• Autore: Fry Douglas P. <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6/6
• Soggetto topico: War; Warfare, Prehistoric; Peace - Social aspects; Ethnology; Conflict management - Social aspects
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Charting a new direction -- Do nonwarring societies actually exist? -- Overlooked and underappreciated : the human potential for peace -- Killer apes, cannibals, and coprolites : projecting mayhem onto the past -- The earliest evidence of war -- War and social organization : from Nomadic bands to modern states -- Seeking justices : the quest for fairness -- Man the warrior : fact or fantasy? -- Insights from the Outback : Geneva Conventions in the Australian bush -- Void if detached ... from reality : Australian "warriors," Yanomamö unokais, and lethal raiding psychology -- Returning to the evidence : life in the band -- Darwin got it right : sex differences in aggression -- A new evolutionary perspective : the Nomadic forager model -- Setting the record straight -- A macroscopic anthropological view -- Enhancing peace.
• Sommario/riassunto: The classic opening scene of 2001, A Space Odyssey shows an ape-man wreaking havoc with humanity's first invention--a bone used as a weapon to kill a rival. It's an image that fits well with popular notions of our species as inherently violent, with the idea that humans are--and always have been--warlike by nature. But as Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues in Beyond War, the facts show that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. Fry points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-ga
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond war
• ISBN: 0-19-771176-6; 0-19-988586-9; 0-19-972505-5; 1-281-16347-3; 0-19-971881-4; 1-4356-1722-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777823903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II