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{{Short description|Long-running argument or fight}} {{Other uses}} A '''feud''' {{IPAc-en|f|juΛ|d}}, also known in more extreme cases as a '''blood feud''', '''vendetta''', '''faida''', '''clan war''', '''gang war''', '''private war''', or '''mob war''', is a long-running argument or fight, often between social groups of people, especially [[family|families]] or [[clan]]s. Feuds begin because one party perceives itself to have been attacked, insulted, injured, or otherwise wronged by another. Intense feelings of [[resentment]] trigger an initial [[Retributive justice|retribution]], which causes the other party to feel greatly aggrieved and [[revenge|vengeful]]. The dispute is subsequently fueled by a long-running cycle of retaliatory [[violence]]. This continual cycle of provocation and retaliation usually makes it extremely difficult to end the feud peacefully. Feuds can persist for [[generation]]s and may result in extreme acts of violence. They can be interpreted as an extreme outgrowth of social relations based in [[family honor]]. A mob war is a time when two or more rival families begin open warfare with one another, destroying each other's businesses and assassinating family members. Mob wars are generally disastrous for all concerned, and can lead to the rise or fall of a family. Until the [[early modern period]], feuds were considered legitimate legal instruments<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.manaraefan.co.uk/index_files/Page3400.htm |title=Revenue, Lordship, Kinship & Law |publisher=Manaraefan.co.uk |access-date=2012-07-26 |archive-date=2012-03-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325033932/http://www.manaraefan.co.uk/index_files/Page3400.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> and were regulated to some degree. For example, [[Montenegrin culture]] calls this ''[[krvna osveta]]'', meaning "blood revenge", which had unspoken{{dubious|date=January 2018}}<!-- if people didn't talk about the rules of ''krvna osveta'', how did they know about them? --> but highly valued rules.<ref>{{cite book|last=Boehm|first=Christopher|title=Blood Revenge: The Anthropology of Feuding in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies|year=1984|publisher=The University of Kansas|location=Lawrence, Kansas|isbn=978-0-7006-0245-2}}</ref> In [[Culture of Albania|Albanian culture]] it is called ''[[Albanian blood feud|gjakmarrja]]'', which usually lasts for generations. In tribal societies, the blood feud, coupled with the practice of [[blood money (term)|blood wealth]], functioned as an effective form of social control for limiting and ending conflicts between individuals and groups who are related by [[kinship]], as described by anthropologist [[Max Gluckman]] in his article "The Peace in the Feud"<ref>Gluckman, Max. "The Peace in the Feud". ''Past and Present'', 1955, 8(1):1β14</ref> in 1955.
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