Keith F. Otterbein
Publications
Books
n.d. E. Adamson Hoebel. In Birx, H. James, ed. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
n.d. Feuding. In Birx, H. James, ed. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
n.d. Feuds and Feuding. In Gastril, Raymond, ed, New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Volume on Violence. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
n.d. George P. Murdock. In Birx, H. James, ed. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
n.d. Raoul Naroll. In Birx, H. James, ed. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
n.d. Warfare, Anthropology of. In Birx, H. James, ed. Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
n.d. Warfare, Archaeology of. In Birx, H. James, ed. Encyclopedia of
Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
1966. The Andros Islanders: A Study of Family Organization in the Bahamas. Lawrence, University of Kansas Press.
1970/1985/1989. The Evolution of War: A Cross Cultural Study. New Haven,
Human Relations Area Files Press. (2nd edition - new Preface and Index;
3rd edition - 2 new Appendices)
1972/1977. Comparative Cultural Analysis: An Introduction to Anthropology.
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (2nd edition 1977 major expansion)
1975. Changing House Types in Long Bay Cays: The Evolution of Folk Housing
in an Out Island Bahamian Community. HRAFlex Book No. SW1 001. New Haven,
Human Relations Area Files Press.
1986. The Ultimate Coercive Sanction: A Cross Cultural Study of Capital
Punishment. New Haven, Human Relations Area Files Press.
1994. Feuding and Warfare: Selected Works of Keith F. Otterbein. Langhorne,
Gordon and Breach.
2004. How War Began. College Station, Texas A & M University Press.
Articles
1959. Setting of Fields: A Form of Bahamian Obeah. Philadelphia Anthropological
Society Bulletin l3:3-7.
1963. The Household Composition of the Andros Islanders. Social and Economic
Studies 12:78-83.
1963. Marquesan Polyandry. Marriage and Family Living 25:155-159. (Reprinted
in: Bohannan, Paul and Middleton, John (eds), Marriage, Family and Residence,
New York, The Natural History Press, 1968, pp. 287-296.)
1964. A Comparison of the Land Tenure Systems of the Bahamas, Jamaica
and Barbados. International Archives of Ethnography 50:31-42.
1964. Principles Governing the Usage of In Law Terminology on Andros
Island, Bahamas. Man 49:54-55.
1964. The Courtship and Mating System of the Andros Islanders. Social
and Economic Studies 13:282-301.
1964. Why the Iroquois Won: An Analysis of Iroquois Military Tactics.
Ethnohistory 11:56-63. (Reprinted in: Bohannan, Paul (ed.) Law and Warfare:
Studies in the Anthropology of Conflict, New York, The Natural History
Press, 1967, pp. 345-349.)
1964. The Evolution of Zulu Warfare. Kansas Journal of Sociology 1:27-35.
(Reprinted in: Bohannan, Paul (ed.) Law and Warfare: Studies in the Anthropology
of Conflict, New York, The Natural History Press, 1967, pp. 351-357.)
1965. Conflict and Communication: The Social Matrix of Obeah. Kansas
Journal of Sociology 1:112-128.
1965. Caribbean Family Organization: A Comparative Analysis. American
Anthropologist 67:66-79.
1965. An Eye For An Eye, A Tooth For A Tooth: A Cross Cultural Study
of Feuding. (with Charlotte Swanson Otterbein) American Anthropologist
67:1470-1482.
1966. Otterbein's Reply to Goode. (This is a refutation of William Goode's
criticism of Caribbean Family Organization.) American Anthropologist 68:493-497.
1967. Mortuary Practices in Northeastern Nigeria. Bulletin of the Cultural
Research Institute 6 (1&2):10-19.
1968. Cross Cultural Studies of Armed Combat. Studies in International
Conflict, Research monograph No. 1, Buffalo Studies 4(1):91-109.
1968. Internal War: A Cross Cultural Study. American Anthropologist 70:277-289.
(Reprinted in: Falk, Richard A. and Samuel S. Kim (eds.), The War System:
An Interdisciplinary Approach, Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press, 1980,
pp.204-223.)
1968. Higi Armed Combat. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 24:195-213.
1969 Basic Steps in Conducting a Cross Cultural Study. Behavior Science
Notes 4:221-236.
1969. Higi Marriage System. Bulletin of the Cultural Research Institute
8 (1&2):16-20.
1970. The Developmental Cycle of the Andros Household: A Diachronic Analysis.
American Anthropologist 72:1412-1419.
1970. Cooper's Town, Bahamas: A Statistical Survey. Social and Economic
Studies 19:263-277.
1972. A Typology of Evolutionary Theories. Behavior Science Notes 7:237-242.
1973. The Anthropology of War. Handbook of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
Honigmann, John J. (ed.) Rand McNally and Co., New York, pp. 923-958.
1973. Believers and Beaters: A Case Study of Supernatural Beliefs and
Child Rearing in the Bahama Islands. (with Charlotte Swanson Otterbein
as senior author) American Anthropologist 75:1670-1681.
1976. Sampling and Samples in Cross Cultural Studies. Behavior Science
Research 11:107-121.
1976. Warfare, Territorial Expansion, and Cultural Evolution. American
Ethnologist 3:825--827.
1977. Warfare: A Hitherto Unrecognized Critical Variable. American Behavioral
Scientist 20:693-710.
1977. A Stochastic Process Analysis of the Developmental Cycle of the
Andros Household. (with Charlotte Swanson Otterbein) Ethnology 16:415-425.
1978. Transportation and Settlement Pattern: A Longitudinal Study of
South Andros. Anthropology 2(2):35-45.
1979. A Cross Cultural Study of Rape. Aggressive Behavior 5:425-435.
1979. Huron vs. Iroquois: A Case Study of Inter Tribal Warfare. Ethnohistory
26:141-152.
1980. The Dilemma of Disarming. Newsletter of the Association for Political
and Legal Anthropology 4(2):7-10.
1981. Infant Stress and Adult Stature: Research and Reactions. (with
Charlotte Swanson Otterbein as senior author) Behavior Science Research
16:79-103.
1985. Feuding Dispute Resolution or Dispute Continuation? (extensive
review of Blood Revenge by Christopher Boehm) Reviews In Anthropology
12:73-83.
1987. Universe of Neighboring Societies Based Upon the Ethnographic Atlas.
(with Alan G. LaFlamme) Behavior Science Research 21:141-159.
1987. Obituary: Raoul Naroll (1920-1985), American Amthropologist 89:136-142.
1989. The Dilemma of Disarming. In Turner, Paul R., David Pitt, and Contributors,
Cold War and Nuclear Madness: An Anthropological Analysis, South Hadley,
MA, Bergin and Garvey Publishers, pp. 128-137.
1989. Socialization for War. Appendix E in The Evolution of War, pp.
156-166.
1989. A Unified Theory of Warfare. Appendix F in The Evolution of War,
pp. 167-172.
1989. Sampling and Samples--An Update. Cultural Anthropology Methods
Newsletter 1(2):4-5.
1990. Two Styles in Cross-Cultural Research. Cultural Anthropology Methods
Newsletter 2(3):6-7.
1991. Sampling in Cross-Cultural Research. (with Melvin Ember as senior
author) Behavior Science Research 25:217-233.
1994. Convergence in the Anthropological Study of Warfare. Chapter 11
in Feuding and Warfare, pp. 171-180.
1994. Ethnic Soldiers, Messiahs, and Cockalorums. (extensive reviews
of War in the Tribal Zone by Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead, War
of Shadows by Michael F. Brown and Eduardo Fernandez, and Stains on My
Name, War in My Veins by Brackette F. Williams) Reviews In Anthropology
23:213-225.
1995. Bahamas. (with Charlotte Swanson Otterbein) In Dow, James, ed.,
Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Volume 8. Middle America and the Caribbean.
Boston, G.K. Hall/Macmillan, pp. 17-20.
1995. More on the Nuer Expansion. Current Anthropology 36:821-823.
1996. Crime. In Levinson, David and Melvin Ember, eds., The Encyclopedia
of Cultural Anthropology. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1:254-257.
1996. Feuding. In Levinson, David and Melvin Ember, eds., The Encyclopedia
of Cultural Anthropology. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2:493-496.
1997. The Origins of War. Critical Review 11:251-277.
1999. Clan and Tribal Conflict. In Kurtz, Lester R., ed., Encyclopedia
of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, San Diego, Academic Press, 1:289-295.
1999. Theories of Violence: Anthropology. In Gottesman, Ronald, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Violence in the United States, New York, Charles Scribner's
Sons, 3:302-305.
1999. A History of Research on Warfare in Anthropology. American Anthropologist
101:794-805.
2000. The Killing of Captured Enemies: A Cross-Cultural Study. Current
Anthropology 41(3):439-443.
2000. Five Feuds: An Analysis of Homicides in Eastern Kentucky in the
Late Nineteenth Century. American Anthropologist 102:231-243.
2000. The Doves Have Been Heard from, Where Are the Hawks. American Anthropologist
102:841-844.
2001. War. In Michie, Jonathan, ed., Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences,
London, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 3:1746-1747.
2001. Dueling. In Green, Thomas A, ed., Martial Arts of the World: An
Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara, ABC-CL10 Publishing, 1:97-108.
2002. Feuding. In Levinson, David, ed., Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment,
Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Berkshire Reference Works/Sage, 2:691-696.
2003. The Archaeology of War. Anthropology News, 44(9):9.
2005. Hunting and Virilocality. Current Anthropology 46 (Feb) (forthcoming)
Reviews, Comments, Abstracts and Letters
1964. Review: They Studied Man, by Abram Kardiner and Edward Preble.
American Anthropologist 66:916.
1964. Review: West Indian Family Structure, M. G. Smith. Caribbean Studies
4(3):74-76.
1966. Review: Descent from the Hills, by Stanhope White. American Anthropologist
68:827.
1966. Review: Yoruba Warfare in the Nineteenth Century, by J. F. Ade
Ajayi and Robert S. Smith. American Anthropologist 68:153l.
1967. Comment on: A.J.F. Kobben, Why Exceptions? The Logic of Cross Cultural
Analysis. (with Charlotte Swanson Otterbein) Current Anthropology 8:24-25.
1969. Review: Family and Colour in Jamaica, by Fernando Henriques. American
Anthropologist 7l:ll79-ll80.
1971. Review: Black Carib Household Structure: A Study of Migration and
Modernization, by Nancie L. Gonzalez. American Sociological Review 36:167.
1971. Comment on: Correlates of Political Complexity. (This is an analysis
of Mark Abrahamson's article.) American Sociological Review 36:113-114.
1973. Review: A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology, ed. by Raoul
Naroll and Ronald Cohen. Current Anthropology 14:258.
1975. Comment on: C. J. J. Vermeulen and A. de Ruijter, Dominant Epistemological
Presuppositions in the Use of the Cross Cultural Survey Method. Current
Anthropology 16:43.
1975. Review: The Marquesan Journal of Edward Robarts 1797-1824, ed.
by Greg Dening. Mankind 10:52.
1975. Review: Comparative Studies by Harold E. Driver and Essays in His
Honor, ed. by Joseph G. Jorgensen. American Scientist 63:238-239.
1979. Review: Social Anthropology and Law, ed. by Ian Hamnett, American
Ethnologist 6:166-169.
1979. Review: The Prairie People: Continuity and Change in Potawatomi
Indian Culture 1665-1965, by James A. Clifton, American Anthropologist
81:400-401.
1984. Review: Tryin' to Make It: Adapting to the Bahamas, by John Bregenzer.
New West Indian Guide 58(3/4):243-245.
1984. Intergroup Relations: A Paradigm for the Study of Armed Combat.
Paper read at Society for Cross-Cultural Research Meetings, Boulder, Colorado,
Feb. 17. Society for Cross-Cultural Research Newsletter, Vol. 12, No.
1, p. 16 (abstract).
1985. A Cross-Cultural Test of Political Legitimacy Theory. Paper read
at Society for Cross-Cultural Research Meetings, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico,
Feb. 15. Society for Cross-Cultural Research Newsletter, Vol. 13, No.
1, p. 12 (abstract).
1986. Review: Women as Heads of Households in the Caribbean: Family Structure
and Feminine Status, by Joycelin Massiah. Man 21:157-158.
1986. Review: Research Practices in the Study of Kinship, by Alan Barnard
and Anthony Good. American Anthropologist 88:462-463.
1986. Letter: Anthropology and the Review Procedure. Anthropology Newsletter,
December, p. 2.
1987. Comment on: Bruce M. Knauft, Reconsidering Violence in Simple Human
Societies: Homicide Among the Gebusi of New Guinea. Current Anthropology
28:484-485. (Titled: Capital Punishment in Bands.)
1988. Review: The Principles of Social Evolution, by C.R. Hallpike. American
Anthropologist 90:444-445.
1988. Comment on: Douglas R. White, Rethinking Polygyny: Co-Wives, Codes
and Cultural Systems. Current Anthropology 29:563-564.
1988. Comment on: Robert K. Dentan, On Semai Homicide. Current Anthropology
29:633-636. (Titled: Capital Punishment: A Selection Mechanism.)
1988. Review: Homicide, by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson. American Anthropologist
90:995-996.
1990. Review: Vengeance is Their Reply: Blood Feuds and Homicides on
Bellona Island, Parts 1 and 2, by Rolf Kushel. American Anthropologist
92:245-246.
1990. Review: Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control
by Ross Hassig. Newsletter of the Association for Political and Legal
Anthropology 13(2):10-11.
1991. Comment on: Lars Rodseth, Richard W. Wrangham, Alisa M. Harrigan,
and Barbara B. Smuts, The Human Community as a Primate Society. Current
Anthropology 32:245-247. (Titled: Fraternal Interest Groups and Survival
Value Theory.)
1991. Comment on: Bruce M. Knauft, Violence and Sociality in Human Evolution.
Current Anthropology 32:413-414.
1993. Review: Conchtown USA: Bahamian Fisherfolk in Riviera Bearch, Florida,
by Charles C. Foster, New West Indian Guide 67:76-77.
1993. Comment on: Christopher Boehm, Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse
Dominance Hierarchy. Current Anthropology 34:244.
1993. Review: Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, by Kevin
Avruch, Peter W. Black, and Joseph A. Scimecca, eds. American Anthropologist
95:179-180.
1994. Letter: The Original "First." Anthropology Newsletter,
September, p. 2.
1994. Comment on: Ruth Mace and Mark Pagel, The Comparative Method in
Anthropology. Current Anthropology 35:559-560.
1995. Review: The Military and Society in Haiti by Michel S. Laguerre.
American Anthropologist, 97:183-184.
1996. Letter: Sterile quarrels. In These Times, November 11, p. 5. (with
R. K. Dentan as senior author).
Recent Presentations and Unpublished Manuscripts
1989. Socialization for War: A Study of the Influence of Hunting upon
Warfare. Paper read at American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington,
D.C., November 19.
1991. Structural Theories of Conflict. Paper read at American Anthropological
Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 23.
1993. Weapons Control, Warfare, and Military Aristocracy. Paper read
at American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., November
20.
1995. Armies and Anthropologists. Discussant paper on "coercive
diplomacy" read at American Anthropological Meeting, Washington,
D.C., November 18.
1997. The Killing of Captured Enemy: A Cross-Cultural Study. Paper read
at American Anthropological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., November
20.
2003. Does Territorial Expansion Lead to the State? I Say No! Paper read at American Anthropological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 23.