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21A.217 Anthropology of War and Peace | Anthropology

This class has been reorganized to focus primarily on the War in Iraq. As in previous years, the class still examines war in cross-cultural perspective, asking whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture.

Keywords:: anthropology, the socialization of warriors and the construction of enemies, studies of military conversion, the recent emergence of anti-war movements, war, humans are by nature warlike, the evolution of war in cross-cultural perspective, Anthropology, Northern Ireland, Cultural Anthropology, Bosnia, Military Studies, military culture in the U.S. and elsewhere, peace, f humans are by nature warlike, ethnic hatred and civil war in Rwanda, and Northern Ireland, Military History, sociobiological and other theories of war, peace movements

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Social Sciences / Anthropology

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Author:: Gusterson, Hugh
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
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Language:: English
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