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War & the Noble Savage

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Description:Over the past decade or so, works such as Steven Pinker’s 'The Blank Slate' and Lawrence H. Keeley’s 'War Before Civilization' have attacked the idea that indigenous societies are more peaceable than modern states. This brief study surveys this recent literature, digging beneath polarized surfaces using less publicized anthropological scholarship. The debate’s age-old frame, emerging from an opposition between Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Noble Savage” and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of primitive life as “nasty, brutish and short,” is analyzed afresh, and related fields, such as studies of chimpanzee violence, are reviewed. Also included is a look at the closely entwined recent controversy over whether tribal cultures have an ecological record as spotless as that often attributed to them. Always at stake is the inevitable drama of Progress: has the modern world degraded human freedom and the environment, or does it represent an emancipation from millennia of conflict and ignorance?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with War & the Noble Savage. To get started finding War & the Noble Savage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 88

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Dreamflesh Press

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0955419611

Description: Over the past decade or so, works such as Steven Pinker’s 'The Blank Slate' and Lawrence H. Keeley’s 'War Before Civilization' have attacked the idea that indigenous societies are more peaceable than modern states. This brief study surveys this recent literature, digging beneath polarized surfaces using less publicized anthropological scholarship. The debate’s age-old frame, emerging from an opposition between Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Noble Savage” and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of primitive life as “nasty, brutish and short,” is analyzed afresh, and related fields, such as studies of chimpanzee violence, are reviewed. Also included is a look at the closely entwined recent controversy over whether tribal cultures have an ecological record as spotless as that often attributed to them. Always at stake is the inevitable drama of Progress: has the modern world degraded human freedom and the environment, or does it represent an emancipation from millennia of conflict and ignorance?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with War & the Noble Savage. To get started finding War & the Noble Savage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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