Table of Contents

Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives; Conceptions of Warfare in Western Thought and Research: An Introduction; Laying Aside the Spear: Hobbesian Warre and the Maussian Gift; Aspects of War and Warfare in Western Philosophy and History; Archaeology and War: Presentations of Warriors and Peasants in Archaeological Interpretations; 'Total War' and the Ethnography of New Guinea; War as Practice, Power, and Processor: A Framework for the Analysis of War and Social Structural Change; Warfare and pre-State Societies: An Introduction; War and Peace in Societies without Central Power: Theories and Perspectives; Fighting and Feuding in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland; The Impact of Egalitarian Institutions on Warfare among the Enga: An Ethnohistorical Perspective; Warfare and Exchange in a Melanesian Society before Colonial Pacification: The Case of Manus, Papua New Guinea; Warfare and Colonialism in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea; Warfare and the State: An Introduction; War and State Formation: What is the Connection?; Warrior Bands, War Lords, and the Birth of Tribes and States in the First Millennium AD in Middle Europe; Chiefs Made War and War Made States? War and Early State Formation in Ancient Fiji and Hawaii; Warfare in Africa: Reframing State and 'Culture' as Factors of Violent Conflict; Warfare, Rituals, and Mass Graves: An Introduction; Semiologies of Subjugation: The Ritualisation of War-Prisoners in Later European Antiquity; Rebellion, Combat, and Massacre: A Medieval Mass Grave at Sandbjerg near Naestved in Denmark; Society and the Structure of Violence: A Story Told by Middle Bronze Age Human Remains from Central Norway; The Dead of Tormarton: Bronze Age Combat Victims?; Funerary Rituals and Warfare in the Early Bronze Age Nitra Culture of Slovakia and Moravia; Warfare, Discourse, and Identity: An Introduction; Warriors and Warrior Institutions in Copper Age Europe; From Gilgamesh to Terminator: The Warrior as Masculine Ideal: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; The (Dis)Comfort of Conformism: Post-War Nationalism and Coping with Powerlessness in Croatian Villages; Violence and Identification in a Bosnian Town: An Empirical Critique of Structural Theories of Violence; War as Field and Site: Anthropologists, Archaeologists, and the Violence of Maya Cultural Continuities; Warfare, Weaponry, and Material Culture: An Introduction; Swords and Other Weapons in the Nordic Bronze Age: Technology, Treatment, and Contexts; What Does the Context of Deposition and Frequency of Bronze Age Weaponry Tell Us about the Function of Weapons?; Warfare and Gender According to Homer: An Archaeology of an Aristocratic Warrior Culture; Index.