Regimes of Violence: Toward a Political Anthropology

by John Protevi

Book Overview

A wide-ranging examination of the roots--and possible future--of violence in human societies

Is aggression inevitable among humans? In Regimes of Violence, John Protevi explores how human violence originates and exists in our societies. Taking humans as biocultural (that is, our social practices shape our bodies and minds), he shows how aggression does not arrive from any purely biological predisposition but rather occurs only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517918758
• ISBN13: 9781517918750
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"