Brian R. Billman is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“This is a thought-provoking collection of case studies about the relation of group conflicts to political strategies and levels of complexity. The examples and interpretations provide a lot of grist for the academic mill in its attempt to understand the variety of grinds that warfare produced in the past.”—Brian Hayden, author of The Eyes of the Leopard "The strength of this volume lies in the tremendous geographic cross-cultural coverage of the multiple means of political domination in state societies."—Raymond Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Brian R. Billman is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“This is a thought-provoking collection of case studies about the relation of group conflicts to political strategies and levels of complexity. The examples and interpretations provide a lot of grist for the academic mill in its attempt to understand the variety of grinds that warfare produced in the past.”—Brian Hayden, author of The Eyes of the Leopard "The strength of this volume lies in the tremendous geographic cross-cultural coverage of the multiple means of political domination in state societies."—Raymond Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Brian R. Billman is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“This is a thought-provoking collection of case studies about the relation of group conflicts to political strategies and levels of complexity. The examples and interpretations provide a lot of grist for the academic mill in its attempt to understand the variety of grinds that warfare produced in the past.”—Brian Hayden, author of The Eyes of the Leopard "The strength of this volume lies in the tremendous geographic cross-cultural coverage of the multiple means of political domination in state societies."—Raymond Hames, University of Nebraska-Lincoln