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Hunter-gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality – but the reality is more complicated

theconversation.com/hunter-gatherer-societies-are-often-put-on-a-pedestal-as-paragons-of-equality-but-the-reality-is-more-complicated-289009

A hunter keeps half a kudu carcass after the kill, but hunter-gatherer sharing still masks real inequality. Researchers reviewing a century of ethnography found every society studied, from the Hadza to the Agta, harbored hidden hierarchies in land, knowledge or marriage.

— via The Conversation — Science, Duncan Stibbard Hawkes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Baylor University

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