anthropology

Prayer and Compassion Beads

  
The History and Meaning of Prayer Beads

Over two-thirds of the world's population employ prayer beads as part of their religious practices.

Why Warfare? Lessons from the Past

 

 by Steven A. LeBlanc

Steven A. LeBlanc is director of collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous publications, including Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest (1999), Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage (2003), and Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest (2004).