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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Me: Why are anthropologists obsessed with kinship? Anthropologist girlfriend: Because anthropologists study PEOPLE and PEOPLE are obsessed with kinship. It’s all the native informants want to talk aboutpic.twitter.com/yzBxMhJ0MN
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native-informants as self-selected group of natives that are willing/able to talk to anthropologists. the natives with more, uh, "autistic" tendencies (analogously or literally, I don't know, it probably doesn't matter) just aren't going to talk to anthropologists.
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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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don't worry, if it did wind up published it will just be accepted as canonical truth and if anybody ever tries to confirm it, they'll just assume that habits changed in the meantime
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Famous, interesting, but unclear case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead#Controversy …
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