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Dale, Not what you are looking for, but there is a nice parallel in the Shaka Zulu story (legend?). As the story goes, before Shaka Zulu, opposing tribes would stand a distance apart that was farther than one could thrown a spear. Shaka Zulu's rise to power was a result of his willingness to cut the distance and actually inflict injury on opposing tribes (this coincides with colonial impositions, I think). Not a very good description but maybe something that would be of use depending. I was also recently reading in Randall Collins' Interaction Ritual Chains (or maybe from R. Nisbet) about ritual warfare and how a people in Papua New Guinea (?) have a belief that you can't wage war at night because the nocturnal spirits will get you. But this only works when the opposing group believes in these same nocturnal spirits. I suspect this is a common principle of warfare that limits the casualties of war in most societies. (jury is out as to whether we have any limiting principles of war left in Western society - we are clearly much better at killing...). -greg On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > Sounds like a fascinating topic, Dale. I hope you manage to find the > article, because that may be another purchase for me too I think. And maybe > there are some politicians who should read it before they invade another > country, too, > > Andy > > > Dale Cyphert wrote: > >> Mostly I lurk nowadays, but once in a while I come up with a really random >> question that only this group could possibly answer.... >> >> In my travels through the literatures on literacy, culture, and >> distributed cognition, I once came across an article that >> mentioned...somewhat in passing, perhaps...the situation of youth gangs >> moving from one turf toward another. It might have involved Italian and >> Latino gangs in the US Northeast? >> >> In any case, at one point in the story, the boys in one gang became irate >> with the others...not because the other gang had fought, so much, but >> because the rules of warfare had been violated. In one neighborhood, the >> expectation was that mothers would come out into the street, calling their >> boys home when there seemed to be a pending escalation to real violence. >> When these boys moved into a new area, however, the mothers failed to >> fulfill that responsibility, and some serious injuries were sustained. >> >> So, if you have a clue what, when, who this article was, I'd sure like to >> track down the citation! If I do have notes, they didn't pertain to this >> little tidbit, but now I have a project that begs for this example! >> >> thanks! >> dale >> >> >> >> Dale Cyphert, PhD >> Associate Professor of Management >> Director, Professional Readiness Program >> College of Business Administration >> Curris Business Building 5F >> University of Northern Iowa >> 1227 W. 27th Street >> Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0125 >> (319) 273-6150 >> dale.cyphert@uni.edu >> ______________________________**____________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> >> >> >> > > -- > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Joint Editor MCA: http://www.tandfonline.com/**toc/hmca20/18/1<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/18/1> > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/**product/1608461459/<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608461459/> > > > ______________________________**____________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/**listinfo/xmca<http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca> > -- Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D. Sanford I. Berman Post-Doctoral Scholar Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition Department of Communication University of California, San Diego http://ucsd.academia.edu/GregoryThompson __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca