Transforming warriors the ritual organization of military force

This volume offers an inter-disciplinary study of how different cultures have sought to transform individuals into warriors. This edited volume analyses how different cultures have conceptualized the transformations of an individual passing from a peacetime to a wartime existence as an active warrio...

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Other Authors: Halden, Peter (Editor), Jackson, Peter (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2016
Series:Cass military studies
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