ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indus Script, Receptive Aphasia, Flinders Petrie
22 Apr 2016
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War extreme form of human conflict; organized violence directed at a specific. There have ben 14,000 wars in the past 5,000 years. In the 20th century, 150 million people are estimated to have died from warfare. Reasons are embedded in worldview: economic, political, ideological. Major cultural change that occurs with domination by more powerful society. Killing ethnic identity (killing language, religion, etc. ) Extermination of a group of people based on their ethnic/cultural identity. Civil disobedience protesting, breaking rules (blacks sitting at front of bus) Biological: human nature, xenophobia, territoriality, male competition for mates or prestige. Materialist: need for land (agriculture) and food. Skulls with arrows stuck in them, bashed in faces. Refutes the myth of the peaceful savage . The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his . Organizational power power to limit the actions of other by groups (coercion and persuasion)
