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

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Quincy Wright

https://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.

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Wright, Quincy. Study of War: Warlikeness and Other Characteristics of Primitive Peoples. [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05905.v1

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

Data Source

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

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • 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. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05905.v1

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR 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, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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