Societies at Peace Anthropological Perspectives

Signe Howell, Roy Willis

Paperback (06 Jul 1989)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The essays present an exciting new approach to 'peace' and 'peacefulness' in human society. The contributors see peace as a rational and active construction of co-operating human beings, instead of passive, residual behaviour.;This book should be of interest to students and teachers of social anthropology, peace studies.

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