Central Theme and Scope of the Article "Explaining Why Marings Fought"

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Vayda, A. P. (1989). Explaining why Marings fought. Journal of Anthropological Research, 45(2), 159-177.
The article by Vayda primarily focuses on reexamining the war experiencing in the New Guinea among the Marings. It aims to show that there was reification in the original analysis, which could be attributed to exaggeration or unwanted explanations that imported to the initial impact of the fighting. The main consequences of this warfare were reported to be territorial annexation. The author further criticizes the original analysis of the warfare among the Marings. He explains that there was a defect in the original analyzing of this war on Marings (Vayda, 1989). Vayda appeals for two things including the context-relatedness of purposeful human behavior and the greater variability in the original analysis. Secondly, he wishes to express the role of the differences in assumptions on the meaning of the ...