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"Blood Feuds": Cross-Cultural Variations in Kin Group Vengeance

    1. Karen Paige Ericksen and
    2. Heather Horton

Abstract

   Despite the considerable research that has been carried out on
   cross-cultural pat terns of political conflict, little empirical
   attention has been devoted to the study of blood feuds. In this study,
   coding categories were developed to measure the legitimacy of kin group
   vengeance, self-redress, and formal adjudication mechanisms among
   societies in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (Murdock and White
   1969). The empirical results strongly suggest that blood feuds occur
   within the context of marriage bargains and that they are most
   characteristic of societies studied prior to World WarI. When
   historical time penod and other potential external influences were
   considered, feuding was found to be associated primarily with
   premarital chastity concerns and mode of marriage. Individual
   self-redress and formal adjudication, however, depend on
   characteristics of the political economy-economic resource base,
   stratification, diverging devolution, and hospitable climate. It is
   suggested here that future analyses of political conflict should
   distinguish feuds from other forms and take into account the historical
   effects of Western incursions on the internal politics of traditional
   communities.
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