Harry Holbert Turney-High Explained

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 as climate or access to resources, but mainly on the organizational ability of any given society.^[3]

Selected works

• Primitive War: Its Practices and Concepts (South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2nd edition (1991))
• The Military: The Theory of Land Warfare As Behavioral Science ([Christopher Pub House] ; (1981))
• Book: Ethnography of the Kutenai. American Anthropological Association. 1941. (reprinted 1998, Ye Galleon Press:)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Turney-High, Harry Holbert 1899–1982. Worldcat Identities. 15 April 2018.
2. Book: Keeley. Lawrence H.. War Before Civilisation. 1997. Oxford UP. 9780195119121. 10–14. 14 April 2018.
3. Book: Keegan. John. A History of Warfare. A History of Warfare. 1993. Random House. 978-0-679-73082-8.