Michael Lotus (@LexingtonGreen) had a meeting w/ Emmanuel Todd http://america3.org/2014/06/mike-lotus-meeting-with-emmanuel-todd-in-paris-discussing-todds-current-work-and-america-3-0/ … Fascinating discussion, esp. 'Peripheral Conservation'
@Scholars_Stage prolly certainly true of the arabs (bedouins), in that fbd marriage leads to a community family type.
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@hbdchick Yeah role of Arab conquests seems clear. More interesting to me is China, Russia, N. India. One of the few common denominators -
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@hbdchick are 'nomadic empires fought here.' Would be interesting to see when each region switch to community family. In Han/Qin times -
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@hbdchick Chinese families were nuclear, not community. Best I can tell that transition happened right before or during early Song. But I -
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@hbdchick don't know the story for Russia or India as well, so I cannot say. Shame Todd's book isn't in English. -
@Scholars_Stage@hbdchick but all of Todd's "whys" are completely unsatisfying as explanations ! -
@pseudoerasmus@Scholars_Stage i agree. but he notices interesting stuff! i'll give him (a lot!) of credit for that. -
@hbdchick@Scholars_Stage yes of course, but he's less interested in origins of the familial systems than what the systems cause -
@pseudoerasmus@hbdchick Well that seems to be one of the themes of his newer book though, right? "L'origine des systèmes familiaux, Tome 1" - 3 more replies
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