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Title: Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest by Steven A. Leblanc ISBN: 0-87480-581-3 Publisher: University of Utah Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An important, scholarly work
Comment: This book is very interesting (at least for someone who has lived in the area all his life and seen many of the sites it mentions)and convincing. As one of the earlier reviews reflects - and as the book itself clearly expects - this interpretation of the evidence highly offends those for whom ideology trumps acheology. The books' tone is rather dry; this is written as a scholarly work, not a popularization, and may not be exciting reading except for archeology majors.
Rating: 5
Summary: Viewpoint of a student
Comment: This book is absolutely fabulous! The author has done a good job of providing a read that is both very informative, but not at all a "dry read" so to speak. I found this book enjoyable, as a matter of fact.
Also, i'm about to enter college as an anthropology major, and i am interested in pursuing a topic simular to the the subject of this book (it will be something dealing with warfare in the southwest, that's for certain) as a thesis, so no doubt this book will help me with that as well when the time comes for that.
Rating: 1
Summary: Eurocentrics always declare the "other" as "cannibal"
Comment: With this book, author Leblanc allies himself with Christy Turner, both who appear to be fixated on their belief that Native Americans of the southwest were cannibals. Turner is notorious for shaping evidence to fit his narrow interpretation for cannibalism in the southwest. Leblanc appears to be following in the same narrow sphere of opinionated and inflamatory analysis of partial facts in order to make his case.
For example, Leblanc illustrates a group of atifacts he calls "swords" (105), although we do not know that what these are. There are people who know what these things are and what they mean. Why don't we hear their voices here?
Chapter Two, entitled "Evidence for Warfare" cites an excerpt of the story "The Destruction of Awatovi" (44), as written by Malotki (1993), suggesting to the reader that the fall of Awatovi was an act of war. Actually, Awatovi's destruction is a much more complex story, and was not an act of war but one of resistence and survival.
Leblanc claims that "warfare is a subject we would all like to ignore", although evidence is clearly to the contrary. History is an accounting of wars. Today's political manuvers use war as a mechanism to foster capitalism, trade, and world commerce.
There are other evidentiary problems in the text. A strong editor could have helped with these difficulties.
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Title: Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest by Christy G. Turner II, Jacqueline Turner ISBN: 087480566X Publisher: University of Utah Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage by Steven LeBlanc, Katherine E. Register ISBN: 0312310897 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 19 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest by J. McKim Malville, Claudia Putnam ISBN: 1555661165 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Deadly Landscapes: Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare by Glen Rice, Steven A. Leblanc ISBN: 0874806763 Publisher: University of Utah Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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