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THE RITES OF WAR
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Author: Sue Mansfield
Publisher: Bellew Publishing
Year published: 1991
Pagination: xvi + 293pp, Source Notes, bibliography, index
Condition: vg in rubbed dw
A analysis of institutionalized warfare. From the tribal warfare of the Yanamo in Brazil to the literature of the Vietnam War, from the Napoleonic Wars to the two 20th century world wars, the concious and unconcious motives of warfare. Includes cultural aspects of rites, myths, epics, theology, the arts and sciences and the origins and nature of the goals of war in differing societies and periods.