Transforming Warriors
The Ritual Organization of Military Force
This volume offers an interdisciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors.War changes people, however a less explored question is how different societies want people to change as they are turned into warriors. When societies go to war they recognize that a boundary is being crossed. The participants are expected to do things that are otherwise prohibited, or at least governed by different rules. This edited volume analyses how different cultures have conceptualized the transformations of an individual passing from a peacetime to a wartime existence to become an active warrior. Despite their dif…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Jackson, Peter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-24486-8
- EAN: 9781317244868
- Produktnummer: 20178700
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'296 KB
- Abbildungen: 6 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen
Über den Autor
Peter Haldén is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University (SDU) in Stockholm. He is the author of Stability without Statehood (2011), Geopolitics of Climate Change (2007) and co-editor of New Agendas in Statebuilding: Hybridity, Contingency and History (2013).Peter Jackson is Professor at the department of History of Religions at Stockholm University. He is the author of The Transformations of Helen: Indo-European Myth and the Roots of the Trojan Cycle (2007), and editor of Philosophy and the End of Sacrifice: Disengaging Ritual in Ancient India, Greece and Beyond (2015).
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