(this thread is a follow up to Worst Mistake in History of Human Race)
just finished a cultural anthropology audio lecture series and one chapter focuses on the Dobe Ju/'hoansi bands of South Africa. one real living example among a number of other currently functioning micro societies scattered in the remote to us areas around the globe.
a few main points:
• gather 70 percent of their food (roots, nuts, fruits, etc.)
• no authority, only "temporary leaders"
• no private property
• work 20 hour weeks with only division of labour being between sexes
• does not distinquish between work and play
• zero starvation: 100% of population fed compared to 30% starving in the "civilized" world
here is the Gatherers and Hunters (not the other way around) chapter for your pleasure/scrutiny:
14 MB
http://www.mediafire.com/?9tixdt4tetz
this prof actually goes further than me the crazy, in conjecturing that the advent of agriculture and hierarchy and all that was actually the result of power itself and the evolution of human society, and not out of need which came with "little ice-age" and/or population growth.
just finished a cultural anthropology audio lecture series and one chapter focuses on the Dobe Ju/'hoansi bands of South Africa. one real living example among a number of other currently functioning micro societies scattered in the remote to us areas around the globe.
a few main points:
• gather 70 percent of their food (roots, nuts, fruits, etc.)
• no authority, only "temporary leaders"
• no private property
• work 20 hour weeks with only division of labour being between sexes
• does not distinquish between work and play
• zero starvation: 100% of population fed compared to 30% starving in the "civilized" world
here is the Gatherers and Hunters (not the other way around) chapter for your pleasure/scrutiny:
14 MB
http://www.mediafire.com/?9tixdt4tetz
this prof actually goes further than me the crazy, in conjecturing that the advent of agriculture and hierarchy and all that was actually the result of power itself and the evolution of human society, and not out of need which came with "little ice-age" and/or population growth.
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