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Blood feud and table manners: a neo-Hobbesian approach to Jivaroan warfare
Antropológica • 99-100 • Published In 2003 • Pages: 153-164
By: Boster, James S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Irritated by the Jivaroan practice of spitting, even in the home of a friendly ethnographer, Boster contrives a neo-Hobbesian explanation for it. According to Boster, war, not peace, is the status quo among the Jivaro and that peaceful intentions are the exception rather than rule. Boster argues that spitting reveals peaceful intentions because one would not be able to copiously spit on the floor if filled with rage or fear and intent on murder. Such intentions would inhibit the salivary glands producing dry mouth and no spit
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personal hygiene
- Etiquette
- Offenses against life
- Animism
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jivaro
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Amazon and Orinoco
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1976-1978
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1978
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Peru and Ecuador
- NotesAdditional notes
- James S. Boster
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65004908
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jivaro Indians/Shuar Indians