Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface
Note on the Serbo-Croatian Language
Glossary
1. Introduction
2. Doing Research on European Tribesmen
3. Traditional Montenegro: A Refuge-Area Warrior Adaptation
4. The Meaning of Osveta
5. The Moral Legitimacy of Feuding
6. Trajectory of a Feud
7. The End Game: Management of Conflict
8. The Importance of Decisions
9. Making Further Sense of the Feud
10. Feuding and Ecology: The Question of Costs and Gains
11. Feuding in the Nonliterate World
12. An Ethological Perspective on Feuding
13. A Final Word on the Blood Feud in Montenegro
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

By Christopher Boehm

Reviews

"Boehm substantially advances our understanding of the phenomenon of feuding. His book deserves to become a standard reference on that topic."--American Anthropologist