Makes one wonder: were nomadic peoples-or pressure from nomadic peoples-the main instrument in spreading community family types?
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@Scholars_Stage prolly certainly true of the arabs (bedouins), in that fbd marriage leads to a community family type.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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 times1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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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 I1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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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.4 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Scholars_Stage@hbdchick the Arabs spread FBD, but why did anyone adopt them in the first place is completely puzzling, I find2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Scholars_Stage@hbdchick keeping the inheritance intact thing of Korotayev doesn't work either (which I will show in future blogpost)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@pseudoerasmus@Scholars_Stage waiting with bated breath for that post! (^_^) (srsly!)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@hbdchick@Scholars_Stage hahaha ! well, don't expect anything special1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@pseudoerasmus @Scholars_Stage btw, pathogens and consanguinity: http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/pathogens-and-consanguinity/ … (i'm not completely convinced.)
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