Human brains are, first and foremost, kinship engines. In senile dementia, gradually all knowledge and ability drops out—including names of your children. But you still remember who’s related to whom. That’s the last thing to go.
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tfw you realize that all anthropological understanding of a given culture is based on that culture's version of this girlpic.twitter.com/0gz1HQtGC2
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This could explain a lot about anthropology…
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I wish I knew if my speculative point is true. Just intuitively doing some armchair ethnomethdology of ethnography. How would you really learn that though? Talk to lots of anthropologists about the stuff they couldn't publish about?
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There’s probably a fertile new field possible of “anthropology of geeks in cross-cultural perspective”!
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