The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea

by Karl G. Heider

Book Overview

For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare, like rituals and kinship alliances, is part of a total culture, and for this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a holistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202308634
• ISBN13: 9780202308630
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 10.1"