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Article: Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War.(Review)
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- Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military
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- March 22, 2001
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Robert B. Edgerton. Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War. Boulder, Col: Westview Press, 2000. 216 pages. 9 black and white photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 (cloth), ISBN 8-8133-3711-9.
A Case Study of Women as Combatants
Robert B. Edgerton is a professor of anthropology at UCLA. His book about the warrior women of Dahomey (in Africa) and the "nature of war" is divided into five chapters. Chapter One concerns the women warriors themselves, why they were chosen, how they were trained, and what their role in warfare was. Chapter Two gives a short history of Dahomey society and a description of the structure of the ...