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Indoctrinability, Ideology and Warfare
Evolutionary Perspectives
Edited by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Frank K. Salter
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450 pages, 24 halftones, 2 maps, 38 tables, 40 diagrams, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-57181-923-9 25% OFF! $120.00/£85.00 $90.00/£63.75 Hb Published (October 1998)
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Description
Violent ethno-nationalist conflicts continue to mar the history of the twentieth century; yet no satisfactory answer to the question of why humans are susceptible to indoctrination by ideologies that lead to inter-group hostility has so far been found. In this volume an international team of leading scientists from many different fields approach this complex issue from a biological perspective, treating indoctrinability as a predisposition that has its roots in humanity's evolutionary past.
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Frank K. Salter, Forschungsstelle für Humanethologie, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
Subject: 20th Century History
Contents
Part I: Evolutionary Precursors and Models
Part II: Contemporary Hunter- Gatherers
Part III: Individual Behavioural Mechanisms
Part IV: Group Processes
Part V: Institutional and Symbolic Mechanisms
Part VI: Indoctrination and Ethics.