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Thank you! I may not agree, but I learned a lot about your position. You may be interested: In the study of cultural universals, there are four leading anthro
by wolverine876 3y ago
Thank you! I may not agree, but I learned a lot about your position.
You may be interested:
In the study of cultural universals, there are four leading anthropologists going back ~100 years afaik, and all four say private property is universal, based on the evidence. Some caveats: Generally speaking, they say it; there's detail there that I don't have time to look into now. Also, defining and classifying the behaviors of all cultures, current and past, and associating them with some modern English words, yields uncertain definitions - as those anthropologists will tell you. Certainly how a 'cultural universal' is expressed can look very different in different cultures.
* Clark Wissler, Man and Culture (1923)
* George Murdock, "The Common Denominator of Cultures", in The Science of Man in the World Crisis ed Ralph Linton. New York: Columbia University Press. 123-142. (1945)
* Charles Francis Hockett, Man's Place in Nature, McGraw-Hill (1973)
* Donald E. Brown, Human Universals (1991)
These are seminal works in that field - the seminal works as I understand it (I'm not an expert). You can find all/most at the Internet Archive, as far as I know.