ANTH 1120 Chapter Notes -Ethnography, Extreme Ways, Thesis Statement

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1120
• Professor: David Murray

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Question 8. 1: how do societies create a bias in favour of collective violence: one way societies create a bias towards collective violence is to reward it, taking others high status goods to provide you high status in society. [279: kiowa rewarded aggressive behaviour (steal horse) and bravery in battle by raise in status. [280: boys must hit eachother and fear turns into rage in battle. Interviews with high school students in eastern sri lanka. [391: sri lanakan military has confessed to the killings of 1987 and 1991 to the beings of countless suspected terrorists and to the bombing of places where terrorists were suspected to be. Ltte cant watch every night bc unaware of when this gouger will come--results in no peace at night. [397: they raid schools aswell, when they come to raid village they hide in fields but hard to find food and water, sometimes they enter fields and shoot families though.