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Underestimating Social Complexity Among Hunter-Gatherers
Anthropologist Robin Dunbar has a recent paper arguing that as group size increases—particularly with the historical transition to larger and more…
Mar 22
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William Buckner
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February 2023
Gebusi Homicide and the Cultural Influence of Violence
From one of the highest homicide rates ever recorded to none for decades
Feb 4
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William Buckner
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December 2022
A Warrior's Reputation
Fame and infamy in small-scale warfare
Dec 28, 2022
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William Buckner
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The Traditions of Conflict 2022 Film Awards
What I watched and appreciated
Dec 28, 2022
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William Buckner
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November 2022
The Culture of the Harfoots in the show 'The Rings of Power'
As soon as the Harfoots first appear in the show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, we are given a great deal of insight into their culture. We…
Nov 23, 2022
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William Buckner
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October 2022
The Intelligence of African Hunters, and the Ignorance of Popular Hereditarians
The sophistication and skill of Bushmen hunters is, I had thought, fairly well known to many educated WEIRDos. In his book The Demon-Haunted World…
Oct 22, 2022
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William Buckner
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The Sad Story of Short Kwi, Legendary Hunter of the Kalahari
This post recounts events described in the book The Harmless People (1958, 1989) by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Among the Bushmen of Nyae Nyae in Namibia…
Oct 4, 2022
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William Buckner
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September 2022
'People's Vengeance on a Disagreeable Medicine-Man'
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be—Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night, 1961. Minkiol was the most despised and…
Sep 7, 2022
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William Buckner
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August 2022
The Oldest Trick in the Book
For the Yolngu of Central Australia, illness was often thought to be caused by a harmful object lodged within the body. Treatment involved a medicine…
Aug 15, 2022
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William Buckner
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Devotion
During the annual Okipa ceremony among the Mandan of the Great Plains of North America, in a display of his devotion to the Great Spirit, a young man…
Aug 6, 2022
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William Buckner
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July 2022
Ongoing series on male cults
Should any man, Halimink warned me gravely, confide to a woman or an uninitiated lad anything of what went on in the Hain [men’s lodge], both he and the…
Jul 28, 2022
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William Buckner
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Shame and cult secrecy
There is an event recounted in the book Naven (1936) by Gregory Bateson, on the Iatmul fisher-foragers of New Guinea, that I have not been able to get…
Jul 23, 2022
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