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Even uncontacted tribes coalesce around two forms of family. Extended or polygamous. There is a natural state.
by mortureb 3y ago
Even 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)