Raymond Hames
@rayhames
Evolutionary anthropologist (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) with interest in labor and food exchanges, small scale societies, war, wildlife conservation, marriage Home-page at
They have been working on this since 2001. Income inequality and homicide rates Canada and the United States. Here it is for US states.
On the efficacy of shamanism from Mike Jay's review of M. Singh's "Shamanism".
I just finished M. Singh's "Shamanism" and at the very end he notes this incredible anti-intellectual nonsense from our post-modern colleagues.
Today's re-reading and noting a lovely photo of the Gunwinggu from Jon Altman's important work. They no doubt feasted for days and called in friends and relatives to join in
Montaigne in "Of Cannibals" described Brazilian native Tupinamba visitors to France in 1562 and their assessment of French civilization
Luke Glowacki just published an excellent critique on war among mobile foragers with a focus on the work of Fry and Söderberg inter alia. I have published my own reservations of their Science paper. But Luke's paper uncovered more problems. I had to change my lecture notes to include the following