HI289 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Noble Savage, Jochen Liedtke, Plaintext
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Sandwich the new recruits in the heart of the army to prevent them from running: if new recruit turns and tries to run, the veterans usually kill them to send a clear message. Usually a member of an informal military structure or organization. Motivations are either to protect family/clan or to gain personal wealth and notoriety. May or may not conduct themselves within specific honour code. Skills and training varies between individual, lax discipline: soldier. Considered an individual element within an overall group (team); standardized equipment. Usually a member of a larger military structure or organization. May or may not conduct themselves within a specific code of behaviour or conduct (honour) Cannot have armies without people believing in a cause. Not as warlike before civilization, it is thought. Skeletons in kenya: 20-30 dating back to 8-10,000 bc, hunter gatherers, tied up and killed. !1: total war observed here; due to death of children, women, and pregnant women.
