Description & Citation--Study No. 5905

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

05905

Study of War: Warlikeness and Other Characteristics of Primitive Peoples

Wright, Quincy

Wright, Quincy. STUDY OF WAR: WARLIKENESS AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES. ICPSR version. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05905.v1

Scope of Study

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.

aggression, cultural traditions, cultural values, indigenous peoples, traditional societies, war

Africa, Asia, Australia, Indonesia, North America, South America, Global

A total of 652 indigenous peoples in Australia, Asia, Indonesia, Oceania, Africa, and North and South America.

aggregate data

Methodology

Wright, Quincy. A STUDY OF WAR. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

1984-05-03