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Weirdest people vs Todd's family structures and Todd wins... impressive.

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Woman can be equal but specialized, so men hunt but women have equal power in other field so can't be bossed much. Indian women in some regions produced main amount of food via farming so men almost were subsubserviant. 2. Another factor or at least evidence is if woman wasn't surrounded by nearby huts off mostly husband's family she COULD IN NITE MURRDER HIM WITH ROCK and come morning unless outnumbered by his family survive. Sleeping with potential enemy with her having allies nearby creates equality, a man when asleep is weak and wife with near allies DARE NOT BE ABUSED DURING DAY. Only when women travel far to marry is abuse common..

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I mean, the sheer assumption of Hunter-gather societies being sexually egalitarian barely stands up to basic scrutiny. Various Australian Aboriginal nations were polygamous and women were the first bounty carried off in raids and war. Women and men were highly segregated in their social and religious roles with men being forbidden to be in the vicinity of secret women’s business on pain of severe corporal punishment or death and vice versa. Women elders had some domain, it was over concretely women and only by influence and a culture of deterrence to age over men.

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"In forthcoming work, David Le Bris and Victor Gay show"

Is a preprint available?

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May 17, 2021Liked by Policy Tensor

Brilliant. Excellent piece on inflation, too.

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Excellent piece. Todd is a critically important thinker who should be better known.

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I’m kind of bothered by why “African” isn’t analyzed further.

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