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In general, it could be said that the implications ofthe most recent anthropological literature lead to a refutationof the influential view long advanced by non-anthropologicalwriters like Hobbes and Freud to the effect that war isthe consequence of an innate propensity to aggression inhuman beings that can never be eradicated but only .harnessed.Nineteenth century evolutionary doctrine- provided an Impetusfor this theory through its concepts of the beastly ancestryof man and the survival of the fittest; the latter, inturn, was invoked by early anthropological theories tojustify the dispossession and extermination by Europeansof Indigenous peoples like the Inhabitants of the Australianisland of Tasmania, who presumably, were doing the verysame thing to one another and to their neighbors only usingA minority of present-day anthropologists, who objectto the current trend in the literature to deny the allegedprevalence of aggression and violence in pre-state society,
neo-Rousseauian" paradigm as faultyas the "neo-Hobbesian" paradigm of anthropologists of acentury ago. Neo-Rousseauians and the pacified past. : Xerox College Publications,355-362.
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