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Don't use scientific words to make unscientific claims about the "natural" state of human families.
by digging 3y ago
Don't use scientific words to make unscientific claims about the "natural" state of human families.
- mortureb 3y agoEven uncontacted tribes coalesce around two forms of family. Extended or polygamous. There is a natural state.
- ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y agoThe state of nature exists only as an idea. Primitive peoples are just as alienated from their supposed state of nature as we are.
- mortureb 3y agoThat’s a hard argument to make if completely alienated populations, irrespective of geographical location, coalesce around the same idea.
- ahf8Aithaex7Nai 3y agoI don't think that's the case. And I don't think you're an anthropologist or anything. It's just a convenient narrative when it fits into your own view. Polyandry was and is widespread in some cultures. I wonder if you would accept that as a state of nature.
- mortureb 3y agoA handful of cultures exist where polyandry is practiced, mostly contemporarily as a side effect of a paucity of women, and the woman is treated as a shared property amongst the men who also sleep with other women at the same time (North Eastern India, parts of Thailand, a couple of Native American tribes)