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War & the Noble Savage A Critical Inquiry into Recent Accounts of Violence amongst Uncivilized Peoples by Gyrus "War & the Noble Savage approaches its contested subject matter with elegance, wit and a keen critical intellect, and exposes the role of our modern culture wars in our imaginings of the prehistoric past. Its thrilling historical sweep offers a fresh perspective on our chaotically evolving present." — Mike Jay, author of The Atmosphere of Heaven and The Air Loom Gang An excellent job on a most central topic. — Dale Pendell, author of Pharmako/Poeia Lucid explanation and intelligent analysis. (8/10) — Fortean Times Over the past decade or so, works such as Stephen Pinker’s The Blank Slate and Lawrence H. Keeley’s War Before Civilization have attacked the idea that indigenous and prehistoric societies were more peaceable than modern states. This brief study surveys this recent literature, digging beneath polarized surfaces using less publicized anthropological scholarship. The debate’s age-old frame, emerging from an opposition between Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s “Noble Savage” and Thomas Hobbes’ vision of primitive life as “nasty, brutish and short,” is analyzed afresh, and related fields, such as studies of chimpanzee violence, are reviewed. Also included is a look at the closely entwined recent controversy over whether tribal cultures have an ecological record as spotless as that often attributed to them. Always at stake is the inevitable drama of Progress: has the modern world degraded human freedom and the environment, or does it represent an emancipation from millennia of conflict and ignorance? ISBN 0955419611 ISBN-13 9780955419614 For more information, links, and a slidecast, visit http://dreamflesh.com/projects/war-noble-savage/

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