Harry Turney-High
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| Born | 1899 | ||||
| Died | 1982 | ||||
| Residence | Dept. of Economics and Sociology, State University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA | ||||
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1934.11.20 proposed by Ralph Linton, seconded by H.J. Braunholtz
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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 us climate or access to resources, but mainly on the organizational ability of any given society.[3]
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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)
