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> often-documented regular raids from /other/ hunter-gather bands, including torture, rape, murder and slavery. There is no slavery in migratory hunter-gathere
by feedforward 2y ago
> often-documented regular raids from /other/ hunter-gather bands, including torture, rape, murder and slavery.
There is no slavery in migratory hunter-gatherer bands, I can't even conceive how that would function. Slavery arose with the agricultural revolution. This is not "oft-dicumented" or even documented
> internal tribal
A hunter-gatherer band is not in a tribe.
I am talking about migratory hunter-gatherer bands and you are talking about slave societies and then tribes.
- dannyobrien 2y agoI don't think what you say is correct. Just a casual search of the literature reveals fairly detailed descriptions of slavery in pre-agricultural societies. Here's one book dedicated to an analysis of slavery in the hunter-gatherer society in the Pacific Northwest: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Aboriginal+Slavery+on+the+Northwest+Coast+of+North+America&publication_year=1997& https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Aboriginal+S... You can find many more, I hope! You seem to be making a strong distinction between "bands" and "tribes" that doesn't seem to be clear-cut elsewhere, which may be where we're getting confused; maybe it would be useful to just drop that element of my list, and concentrate on the other aspects of hunter-gatherer society?