Is war necessary? In Peace and War prominent anthropologists and
other social scientists explore the cultural and social factors
leading to war. They analyze the covert causes of war from a
cross-cultural perspective: ideologies that dispose people to war;
underlying patterns of social relationships that help
institutionalize war; and the cultural systems of military
establishments. Overt causes of war-environmental factors like the
control of scarce resources, advantageous territories, and
technologies, or promoting the wel-fare of people "like"
oneself-are also considered. The authors examine anthropologists'
role in policy formation-how their theories on the nature of
culture and society help those who deal with global problems on a
day-to-day basis. They argue that both covert and overt mechanisms
are pushing the world closer to a devastating war and offer
strategies to weaken the effects of these mechanisms. This
anthropological and historical analysis of the causes of war is a
valuable resource for those studying war and those trying to
understand the place of social science in framing pacific options.
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