Violence and civilization: studies of social violence in history and prehistory

Introduction: Toward a deep history of violence and civilization / Roderick Campbell

Part I. Sacrifice

Introduction to Part I

Dramas of the dialectic : sacrifice and power in ancient polities / Edward Swenson

(Un)dying loyalty : meditations on retainer sacrifice in ancient Egypt and elsewhere / Ellen F. Morris

Transformations of violence : on humanity and inhumanity in early China / Roderick Campbell

Part II. Community

Introduction to Part II

Histories of violence : notes from the Roman Empire / Ari Z. Bryen

On torture in societies against the state / Severin Fowles

Part III. Terror

Introduction to Part III

The military normal : feeling at home with counterinsurgency in the United States / Catherine Lutz

Violence, terrorism, otherness : reshaping enmity in times of terror / Philippe Bonditti.