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Harry Holbert Turney-High

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Harry Holbert Turney-High (1899–1982)[1] was an American anthropologist and author who studied primitive war and conflict. He was a professor of anthropology at University of South Carolina and also a colonel in the military police in the United States Army Reserve.[2] He based his theory on the concept of military horizon, which is the point where a society evolves from a primitive form of war towards a more complex one. This evolution depends not only on traditionally studied mechanism, such as climate or access to resources, but mainly on the organizational ability of any given society.[3]

Selected works

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  • Primitive War: Its Practices and Concepts (South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2nd edition (1991)) ISBN 0-872-49196-X
  • The Military: The Theory of Land Warfare As Behavioral Science ([Christopher Pub House] ; (1981)) ISBN 0-815-80403-2
  • Ethnography of the Kutenai. American Anthropological Association. 1941. (reprinted 1998, Ye Galleon Press: ISBN 9780877706786)

References

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  1. ^ "Turney-High, Harry Holbert 1899–1982". Worldcat Identities. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  2. ^ Keeley, Lawrence H. (1997). War Before Civilisation. Oxford UP. pp. 10–14. ISBN 9780195119121. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  3. ^ Keegan, John (1993). A History of Warfare. Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-73082-8.