ABSTRACT
The authors turn their sight to another area which has caught anthropologists' attention as posing a more/less pan-human problem and generating some common moral reactions, though possibly of a more limited sort. This is the problem of controlling aggression within the community which lives and works together. This is the problem of controlling aggression within the community which lives and works together. The very formulation of the question is a "problem" for "control" suggests that this field is conceptualized as quite different in its essential dynamics from that of mother-love. Principles regarding good child care are on the whole positive; they are over-determined by a convergence of social and personal motivations. Aggression seems to be in a different camp. In any case, it is clearly not enough to think of a common human social need for controlling in-group aggression. In short, in-group aggression in such a situation may be necessary to the continuance of the existent social forms.
