Expansion of States: Transformation of Indigenous Patterns of Warfare

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Strathern, A. J. (1992). Let the bow go down. War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare. 229–250. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.hmlproxy.lib.csufresno.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ant&AN=129086&site=ehost-live
Andrew J. Strathern is a recognized scholar and social anthropologist who has a wide range of interest in the analysis of political and social systems, kinship theories, social change, religion and ritual, ethnicity, legal anthropology and conflict and violence. He has also carried out long-term fieldwork in Pacific; Papua New Guinea, Asia and Europe. This article contains knowledge which is vital for social scientists interested in linguistic anthropology and contemporary anthropological theories.
The author has provided essential information regarding the transformation of Indigenous patterns of warfare which are influenced by the expansion of states. The author has outlined and discussed some of the factors that contributed to expansionism. These include d...