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ANTH 366. Anthropology of War

Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 011587 (A, C)

This course examines the causes, conduct and consequences of warfare in non-state societies using both ethnographic and archaeological data. Case studies drawn from throughout the world are used to examine topics such as the co-evolution of war and society, the impact of colonialism on native warfare, the process of making peace and claims about the biological “inevitability” of war.