SOC 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Kennewick Man, Odds Ratio, Total War
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Exam (will be 50-60 questions multiple choice) Study guide is on icon (this doesn"t cover everything that could be tested) He looks at violence over time and studies this by looking at the odds of incurring a violent death during a given time (it"s an odds ratio- so it"s looking at violence in relation to world population) Evidence of commonplace violence: anthropological- otzi the iceman, kennewick man. Murder and ritual human sacrifice were typical. Anthropologists discover signs of trauma on the bones etc: customs, as seen in popular literature. Homeric greece- the origins of total war, rape and slavery as spoils of war. Hebrew biblical tradition-600 passages mention kings, nations, individuals killing and destroying others. 1000 verses in which yahweh directly kills or orders killing of men. Roman antiquity- killing for sport/entertainment, decimation, sadistic executions. Medieval knighthood- private wars and killers for hire, women seen as prizes won through combat.
