the most recent anthropological literature lead to a refutation

of the influential view long advanced by non-anthropological

writers like Hobbes and Freud to the effect that war is

the consequence of an innate propensity to aggression in

human beings that can never be eradicated but only .harnessed.

Nineteenth century evolutionary doctrine- provided an Impetus

for this theory through its concepts of the beastly ancestry

of man and the survival of the fittest; the latter, in

turn, was invoked by early anthropological theories to

justify the dispossession and extermination by Europeans

of Indigenous peoples like the Inhabitants of the Australian

island of Tasmania, who presumably, were doing the very

same thing to one another and to their neighbors only using

A minority of present-day anthropologists, who object

to the current trend in the literature to deny the alleged

prevalence of aggression and violence in pre-state society,

This author who maintains that both the prehistoric and

159) dismisses biology as 'Irrelevant' to explaining war,

Robarchek, C. (1990). Motivations and material causes: on

The anthropology of war. Santa Fe, NM: School of American

making" (1990:62), thus introducing the factor of rationality

propensity to warfare may exist. It must be activated

in terms that, like Ferauson's, deny the Idea of determinism

Bamforth, in similar vein, concludes on the basis of

Europeans for food and other necessities coupled with

Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica. Cambridge.

under modern conditions" (nd, in Clarkson & Cochran, 1966:23-

Robarchek,, while sharing, current environmental and cultural

1999, in Raaflaub & Rosenstein, 426).

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