ANT 395-03 - Advanced Special Topic: Anthropology of Warfare and Violence

4 credits (Spring)

Not all pre-modern societies live in peace. Internal violence and warfare between groups are common and of recent anthropological interest. We will discuss anthropological theories about the evolutionary origins of violence in non-human primates, and current attempts to explain violence in ethnographic societies. The course will have an archaeological emphasis, especially as we consider evidence.

Prerequisite: ANT 104 and ANT 280.
Instructor: Whittaker