Warlike and peaceful societies : the interaction of genes and culture /
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""1. Introduction""; ""1.1. A different kind of social science""; ""1.2. Overview of the book""; ""2. The Theory of Regal and Kungic Cultures""; ""2.1. In a nutshell: regal and kungic explained""; ""2.2. Evolutionary basis for regality theory""; ""2.3. An evolutionarily stable strategy""; ""2.4. The behavior of the leader""; ""2.5. Why are most warriors and chiefs men?""; ""2.6. Cultural effects of regal and kungic tendencies""; ""3. Contributions from Other Theories""; ""3.1. Influence of the environment: Contributions from ecological theory""
- ""3.2. Nature or nurture: Evolution of sociality""""3.3. Fertility: Contributions from life history theory""; ""3.4. Contributions from political demography""; ""3.5. World view and personality: Authoritarianism theory""; ""3.6. Contributions from other social psychological theories""; ""3.7. Contributions from social values theories""; ""3.8. The theory of tight and loose cultures and other culture theories""; ""3.9. Contributions from human empowerment theory""; ""3.10. Moral panics: Contributions from the sociology of deviance""; ""4. Different Kinds of War in Human History""
- ""4.1. The rise of empires: Contributions from cultural selection theory""""4.2. The fall of empires: Contributions from historical dynamics theory""; ""4.3. General theories of war and peace""; ""4.4. Changing patterns of war""; ""4.5. Theories of revolution""; ""5. Economic Determinants of Conflict and Fear""; ""5.1. Fear is profitable: The economy of the mass media""; ""5.2. Economic booms and busts""; ""5.3. Greed or grievance: Economic theories of civil war""; ""5.4. The resource curse""; ""5.5. Example: Proxy war in Afghanistan""; ""6. Strategic Uses of Fear""
- ""6.1. Terrorism conflicts""""6.2. The strategy of tension in Italy and elsewhere""; ""6.3. Fabrication of threats and conflicts""; ""6.4. Example: Why World War II started""; ""7. Regality Theory Applied to Ancient Cultures""; ""7.1. Andamanese""; ""7.2. Arrernte""; ""7.3. Babylonians""; ""7.4. Chiricahua Apache""; ""7.5. Copper Inuit (Eskimo)""; ""7.6. E De (Rhad)""; ""7.7. Ganda""; ""7.8. Gilyak""; ""7.9. Hausa""; ""7.10. Inca""; ""7.11. !Kung""; ""7.12. Maasai""; ""7.13. Mbuti""; ""7.14. Somali""; ""7.15. Warao""; ""7.16. Yahgan""; ""7.17. Yanomamo""; ""7.18. Yi (Lolo, Nuosu)""
- ""Conclusion""""8. Statistical Testing of Regality Theory""; ""8.1. Problems of cross-cultural statistics""; ""8.2. Ancient cultures, large sample""; ""8.3. Subsample, 18 cultures""; ""8.4. Contemporary cultures, large sample""; ""8.5. Evidence from existing studies""; ""8.6. Conclusion of the statistical tests""; ""9. Discussion and Conclusion""; ""9.1. Summary of findings""; ""9.2. Three epochs in human history""; ""9.3. The regal/kungic dynamics and human social development""; ""9.4. New explanations of well-known phenomena""; ""9.5. Integration with other theories""
- ""9.6. Policy lessons""