War, Peace, and Human Nature

The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views
Herausgeber: Fry, Douglas P.

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Produktbeschreibung

In War, Peace, and Human Nature, editor Douglas P. Fry brings together leading experts in such fields as evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, and primatology to answer fundamental questions about peace, conflict, and human nature in an evolutionary context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 982g
• ISBN-13: 9780190232467
• ISBN-10: 0190232463
• Artikelnr.: 47863410

Autorenporträt

Douglas P. Fry, Ph.D., is Director of Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research at Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland and an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Fry is author of Beyond War (2007, Oxford) and The Human Potential for Peace (2006, Oxford).

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* Frans B. M. de Waal
* Acknowledgments
* List of Contributors
* 1 War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Challenge of Scientific
Objectivity
* Douglas P. Fry
* Section I: Ecological and Evolutionary Models
* 2 Evolution and Peace: A Janus Connection
* David P. Barash
* 3 Conflict and Restraint in Animal Species: Implications for War and
Peace
* Hanna Kokko
* 4 An Ethological Perspective on War and Peace
* Peter Verbeek
* 5 Cooperation, Conflict, and Niche Construction in the genus Homo
* Agustín Fuentes
* Section II: Lessons from Prehistory: War and Peace in the Past
* 6 Why the Legend of the Killer Ape Never Dies: The Enduring Power of
Cultural
* Beliefs to Distort Our View of Human Nature
* Robert W. Sussman
* 7 Pinker's List: Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mortality
* R. Brian Ferguson
* 8 Trends in Cooperation and Conflict in Native Eastern North America
* David H. Dye
* 9 From the Peaceful to the Warlike: Ethnographic and Archaeological
Insights into
* Hunter-Gatherer Warfare and Homicide
* Robert Kelly
* 10 The Prehistory of Warfare: Misled by Ethnography
* Jonathan Haas and Matthew Piscitelli
* 11 The Prehistory of War and Peace in Europe and the Near East
* R. Brian Ferguson
* Section III: Nomadic Foragers: Insights about Human Nature
* 12 Peaceful Foragers: The Significance of the Batek and Moriori for
the Question of
* Innate Human Violence
* Kirk Endicott
* 13 Social Control and Conflict Management among Australian Aboriginal
Desert
* People Before and After the Advent of Alcohol
* Robert Tonkinson
* 14 Aggression and Conflict Resolution among the Nomadic Hadza of
Tanzania as
* Compared with their Pastoralist Neighbors
* Marina L. Butovskaya
* 15 South Indian Foragers' Conflict Management in Comparative
Perspective
* Peter M. Gardner
* 16 The Biocultural Evolution of Conflict Resolution between Groups
* Christopher Boehm
* 17 The 99%-Development and Socialization within an Evolutionary
Context:
* Growing Up to Become a "Good and Useful Human Being"
* Darcia Narvaez
* Section IV: The Primatological Context of Human Nature
* 18 Chimpanzees, Warfare and the Invention of Peace
* Michael L. Wilson
* 19 Evolution of Primate Peace
* Frances J. White, Michel T. Waller, and Klaree J. Boose
* 20 Conflicts in Cooperative Social Interactions in Non-Human Primates
* Sarah F. Brosnan
* 21 Rousseau with a Tail: Maintaining a Tradition of Peace among
Baboons
* Robert M. Sapolsky
* 22 Conflict Resolution in Non-Human Primates and Human Children
* Maaike Kempes, E. H. M. Sterck, and B. Orobio de Castro
* Section V: Taking Restraint against Killing Seriously
* 23 The Evolution of Agonism: The Triumph of Restraint in Nonhuman and
Human Primates
* Douglas P. Fry and Anna Szala
* 24 Social Signaling, Conflict Management, and the Construction of
Peace
* Paul ("Jim") Roscoe
* 25 The Challenge of Getting Men to Kill: A View from Military Science
* Richard J. Hughbank and Dave Grossman
* 26 Man the Singer: Song Duels as an Aggression Restraint Mechanism
for
* Nonkilling Conflict Management
* Joám Evans Pim
* Section VI: Conclusions
* 27 Cooperation for Survival: Creating a Global Peace System
* Douglas P. Fry
* Index