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Proxy-primitive decisions

Silberbauer unique on ‘Political process in G/wi bands’

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Michael G. Heller
Dec 07, 2024
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Among all the anthropological material I have read in search of straightforward non-moralistic empirical data on decision making (“decision” and “decide” seem to be the rarest words in anthropology) this chapter is, I currently think, the best single account and the one most in harmony with my ‘primitive’ intuitions about prehistory.

Political Discussion by Émile Friant, Paris 1889

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