Introduction to Volume V
Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Uncentralized tribes and centralized chiefdoms
Jívaro Warfare
Yanomamō Warfare
Warfare in the Cauca Valley
Tairona Warfare
Warfare among the Panamanian Chiefdoms
Organization
Pre-War Rituals
Offensive Tactics
Defensive Tactics
Post-War Rituals
Funerary Treatment of Warriors
Investigating Warfare Archaeologically
Archaeology of Tribal Warfare
Preparations for War
Arrow Poisons
Pre-War Rituals
Organization of War Parties
Warfare Tactics
Defensive Tactics
Post-war Rituals
Ritual Cannibalism
Display of Human War Trophies
Mortuary Treatment
The Authority of Tribal War Leaders and Warring Chiefs
The Ideological Motives of Warfare
The Alternating Roles of Warfare and Exchange
Warfare and the Development of Centralized Societies
Bibliography
Notes
Appendix: Author's Translations of Spanish Text