The anthropology of war.

List of contributors Preface 1. Conference overview Clark McCauley 2. Explaining war R. Brian Ferguson 3. Motivations and material causes on the explanation of conflict and war Clayton Robarchek 4. Reproductive and somatic conflicts of interest in the genesis of violence and warfare among tribesmen Napolean Chagnon 5. Uneasy peace: intertribal relations in Brazil's Upper Xingu Thomas Gregor 6. Raiding, trading, and tribal autonomy in insular Southeast Asia Thomas Gibson 7. The Snake Warriors - Sons of the Tiger's Teeth: a descriptive analysis of Carib warfare ca. 1500-1820 Neil Whitehead 8. Warfare and the evolution of tribal politics in the prehistoric Southwest Jonathan Haas 9. Chiefdom-level warfare as exemplified in Fiji and the Cauca Valley Robert Carneiro References Index.