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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Endemic warfare is
the state of continual, low-threshold warfare in a tribal warrior
society. Endemic warfare is often highly ritualized and plays an
important function in assisting the formation of a social structure
among the tribes' men by proving themselves in battle. Ritual fighting
permits the display of courage, masculinity and the expression of
emotion while resulting in relatively few wounds and even fewer deaths.
Thus one can view the practice as a standard form of conflict-resolution
and/or as a healthy psycho-social exercise. Native Americans often
engaged in this activity but warfare occurs or occurred much more rarely
in most other hunter-gatherer cultures. In more formalised social
environments representative champions - not necessarily leaders
themselves - may represent a party and engage in ritual single combat.
Warfare is known to several tribal societies, but some societies develop
a particular emphasis of warrior culture
