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Those are not real “wars”. Basically mostly for show.

Tribal warfare is often ritualized [1]. I remember reading that the tribes on what is now Canada's West Coast practiced real, brutal warfare compared to their eastern counterparts, due to the scarce resources.

In Burden of Dreams [2], the documentary about the making-of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, some of the tribal extras would occasionally go off in their motor boats for raids on neighbouring tribes. It's so interesting to me, tribal life would be fascinating to experience.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_warfare

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_Dreams

> tribal life would be fascinating to experience.

Not when life is filled with warfare, murdering other people, and having loved ones killed?

I didn't say "a grand time". It would also be fascinating to live through the Fall of Rome, the Pazzi conspiracy, the Black Death, or any number of other unpleasant things. I'm pretty on-edge about the interesting times I'm living in right now, but they are certainly interesting.

All this ritual warfare makes it sound like the exact opposite. Sounds like the bigger problem with tribal living would be the lack of antibiotics.

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