Study of War: Warlikeness and Other Characteristics of Primitive Peoples (ICPSR 5905)

Principal Investigator(s): Wright, Quincy

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. (more info)

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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

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05905.v1

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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 Terms:   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 Types:   aggregate data

Data Source:

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

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• Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Original ICPSR Release:  1984-05-03

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