I'd say it's a form of mimesis, defined by Wikipedia as
a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include: imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, etc., etc...
I don't disagree with @Eliah Kagan's comment, to the effect that actually it's largely just coincidence that anthropologists and historians happen to be (metaphorically) "at war" over how/when prehistoric wars started. Arguably from that point of view, OP's example could be called surreal (bizarre, characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
).
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