Douglas P. Fry: Beyond War | Taschenbuch

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A profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a hopeful prognosis for a future without war. Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. He points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-gatherer groups, egalitarian bands where warfare was a rarity. Drawing on archaeology and fascinating recent fieldwork on hunter-gatherer bands from around the world, Fry debunks the idea that war is ancient and inevitable. For instance, among Aboriginal Australians, warfare was an extreme anomaly. Fry also points out that even today, when war seems ever present, the vast majority of us live peaceful, nonviolent lives. We are not as warlike as we think, and if we can learn from our ancestors, we may be able to move beyond war to provide real justice and security for the world.

Über den Autor

Douglas P. Fry teaches in the Faculty of Social and Caring Sciences at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and is an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. A renowned anthropologist and a leading authority on aggression and conflict resolution, he has worked in this field for over twenty-five years and has published many articles and books on this subject.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Robert M. Sapolsky

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: - Charting a New Direction

2: - Do Nonwarring Societies Actually Exist?

3: Overlooked and Underappreciated: The Human Potential for Peace

4: Killer Apes, Cannibals, and Coprolites: Projecting Mayhem onto the Past

5: The Earliest Evidence of War

6: War and Social Organization: From Nomadic Bands to Modern States

7: Seeking Justice: The Quest for Fairness

8: Man the Warrior: Fact or Fantasy?

9: Insights from the Outback: Geneva Conventions in the Australian Bush

10: Void if Detached from Reality: Australian "Warriors," Yanomamö Unokais, and Lethal Raiding Psychology

11: Returning to the Evidence: Life in the Band

12: Darwin Got It Right: Sex Differences in Aggression

13: A New Evolutionary Perspective: The Nomadic Forager Model

14: Setting the Record Straight

15: A Macroscopic Anthropological View

16: Enhancing Peace

Appendix 1: Organizations to Contact

Appendix 2: Nonwarring Societies

Notes

Suggested Reading

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780195384611
ISBN-10:	019538461X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Fry, Douglas P.
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Douglas P. Fry
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.04.2009
Gewicht:	0,497 kg