Word: tribalized
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Humans are genetically disposed towards aggressive behavior which can escalate to war, LeBlanc argues, and war has been central to life in both tribal and complex societies. LeBlanc, who also serves as a senior lecturer in the anthropology department, has been interested in prehistoric warfare for many years...
LeBlanc’s work has centered on the American southwest and Turkey. The image of prehistoric tribal groups in these areas as “peaceful noble savages” is widely accepted, LeBlanc says, yet his work has uncovered evidence of ancient wars in both places...
...peaceful Pueblo Indians.” Similar evidence in other places has been long ignored, overlooked due to what LeBlanc describes as the common belief that humans have lived peacefully before the advent of nation-states. Both anthropologists and the general public have romanticized prehistoric societies and contemporary tribal groups as peaceful, LeBlanc argues, when in fact populations have perished or flourished as a result of warfare...
LeBlanc cites groups as diverse as the Maoris of New Zealand and the Greek Mycenaeans to demonstrate that warfare was prevalent in both prehistoric and tribal societies...
...even more common—but equally dangerous—myth proposes that tribal peoples lived in symbiotic relationships with the environment. LeBlanc attempts to debunk this myth as well...