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The first 2 may help of my yesterday's comment <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20333451> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20333451> The guy I spoke t
by tempguy9999 7y ago
The first 2 may help of my yesterday's comment <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20333451> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20333451>
The guy I spoke to who recommended the chimp book also recommended 'Yiwara: Foragers of the Australian Desert' <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412584-yiwara> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21412584-yiwara>. The first part is an observation of their life, the second part is a terribly sad description of their very ancient culture being destroyed simply by the presence of western culture. It was less interesting, but mostly it was just too sad to read. I skipped that.
Reason he recommended the chimpo book and Yiwara is I asked him about the then-new finding of a very old artefact on which he had some fascinating stuff to say. I asked him how he knew these things, he said 'personal experience, mostly'.
'The innocent Anthropologist' was suggested by someone else. Very revealing, very funny though.
The aztec book I also pushed... well, it's a damn good read too!