Talk:Ritual fighting

humans have a tendency to compete?
a source would prove useful, otherwise i think this statement is made with the bias of coming from a hierarchical society. from what i understand of the subject, intertribal warfare was less competitive and more to ensure the demarcation of tribal lines and let the other tribe know of your presence.
 * I have difficulties seeing how intertribal warfare or "demarcation of tribal lines and let the other tribe know of your presence" can be construed as not being competitive.
 * note Violence and the Sacred: Since from the beginning the desire is aroused by the other (and not by the object) the object is soon forgotten and the mimetic conflict transforms into a general antagonism. dab (𒁳) 07:54, 31 May 2007 (UTC)