Recent findings and analyses in evolutionary biology, archaeology, and ethnology provide a favorable conjuncture for examining the evolution of lethal intergroup violence among hominids during the 2.9-million-year Paleolithic time span. Here, I seek to identify and investigate the main turning points in this evolutionary trajectory and to delineate the periodization that follows from this inquiry.

Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ulls väg 28, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden Department of Ethnology, Comparative Religion and Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Correspondence Stina Powell, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultu...

Abstract The article sets to present the historical and current developments in ethnology anthropology of Serbia. first part is devoted overview which portrays development discipline from late 19th early 21st century. It ends with an explanation use concept “ethnology” “anthropology” present-day naming discipline. In second part, most important institutions, professional societies, anthropologi...

Abstract This paper starts with the four factors that affect Chinese anthropology and ethnology: Soviet school of ethnology, Marxist Western anthropological ethnological theories, experience theory (government policies scholar explorations). Based on influence foreign theories theoretical exploration local efforts, this points out transformations in ethnology its research characteristics differ...

The article traces the transformations of Folkloristics and Ethnology as university disciplines in Bergen, Norway, since the 1960s. The changes in basic assumptions and fields of interest are seen in the context of the development of the educational system, especially the social role of the social sciences and the humanities at large. INTRODUCTION The humanistic disciplines concerned with the s...