This book deals with war in three Oceanian societies. More specifi cally, it analyzes the following: the process of war in relation to population pressure among New Guinea's Maring people; exten sion and contraction in the headhunting activities of the Iban people of Sarawak during the nineteenth century; and the disrup tion resulting from the introduction of muskets in the warfare of the Maoris of New Zealand. In all of the analyses, I have viewed war as a process rather than simply as something that either does or does ...
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This book deals with war in three Oceanian societies. More specifi cally, it analyzes the following: the process of war in relation to population pressure among New Guinea's Maring people; exten sion and contraction in the headhunting activities of the Iban people of Sarawak during the nineteenth century; and the disrup tion resulting from the introduction of muskets in the warfare of the Maoris of New Zealand. In all of the analyses, I have viewed war as a process rather than simply as something that either does or does not occur and I have tried to see how the process relates to environmental problems or perturbations actually faced by people. The use of such an approach can, I believe, lead to important understandings about war and, more generally, about how people respond to environmental problems. A goal in this book is to show that this is so. Although it is only relatively recently that the significance of viewing war as a process became clear to me, my interest in war in relation to environmental and demographic phenomena is of long vii viii Preface standing. The beginning of the studies resulting in the present book can, in fact, be said to date back to the mid-1950s when I was in New Zealand to do library research for my Ph. D. dissertation on Maori warfare."
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Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 129 pp. Tightly bound. Tips of lower corners lightly bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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Fine. 0306308762. Hardcover, no dustjacket, brown cloth binding, excellent condition, no remarkable flaws to this clean, attractive copy, 129 pages, illustrated, includes Bibliographies, "So-called conflict theorists and the many scholars who have asked about the causes of war have seldom looked at war as a process"
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I bought this book because Vayda has written, more extensively (and more expensively), on Maori warfare and I had hoped that this would provide an introduction to his ideas in a comparative setting. I suppose it did that but my expectations were higher than this and the book seemed to be thinner and more dated than I had hoped. I had thought of giving it only three stars but that seemed a little ungenerous but, I have to admit, four seems, perhaps, a little too generous.
