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Description & Citation
Description & Citation--Study No. 5905 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 5905 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05905 |
| Title: | Study of War: Warlikeness and Other Characteristics of Primitive Peoples |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Quincy Wright |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Wright, Quincy. STUDY OF WAR: WARLIKENESS AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05905 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This study contains data on 652 indigenous peoples in Australia, Asia, Indonesia, Oceania, Africa, and North and South America. For each people, data are provided for name, geographic region, character of wars fought such as defensive, social, economic, or political war, climate, habitat, sub-race classification such as pygmies, australoid, negroid, hamitoid, red, yellow, brown, or white, culture, sub-culture, political and social organizations, and intercultural relations. |
| Subject Term(s): | aggression, cultural traditions, cultural values, indigenous peoples, traditional societies, war |
| Geographic Coverage: | Africa, Asia, Australia, Indonesia, North America, South America, Global |
| Universe: | A total of 652 indigenous peoples in Australia, Asia, Indonesia, Oceania, Africa, and North and South America. |
| Data Type: | aggregate data |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | Wright, Quincy. A STUDY OF WAR. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1965. |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1984-05-03 |
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