![]() They have devoted special attention to the murky question of motives. These proponents have evaluated the effectiveness of tribal war entirely on the ethnocentric grounds of how similar its conduct was to modern warfare rather than on the basis of its actual effects. Thus the proponents of safe and ineffective primitive war have focused on stylized and low-casualty battles in preference to the rarer massacres and much more frequent raids that killed most people. They relied on available evidence, but often the data cited were quiteirrelevant to their key ideas. But the concepts of primitive war and prehistoric peace were not the products of pure imagination or conscious falsehood. ![]() ![]() In the postwar atmosphere of anxiety, malaise, and dissatisfaction with Western civilization, anthropologists have introduced doctrines concerning precivilized violence consistent with this mood. ![]()
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