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| Prologue: At the Airport |
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Why study traditional societies? |
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Types of traditional societies |
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Approaches, causes, and sources |
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A small book about a big subject |
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PART ONE SETTING THE STAGE BY DIVIDING SPACE |
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Chapter 1 Friends, Enemies, Strangers, and Traders |
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Mutually exclusive territories |
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Friends, enemies, and strangers |
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Traditional forms of trade |
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Chapter 2 Compensation for the Death of a Child |
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Other non-state societies |
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Defects in state civil justice |
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Advantages and their price |
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Chapter 3 A Short Chapter, About a Tiny War |
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Chapter 4 A Longer Chapter, About Many Wars |
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Forms of traditional warfare |
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Similarities and differences |
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Effects of European contact |
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Warlike animals, peaceful peoples |
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Motives for traditional war |
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Chapter 5 Bringing Up Children |
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Comparisons of child-rearing |
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Weaning and birth interval |
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Responses to crying infants |
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Chapter 6 The Treatment of Old People: Cherish, Abandon, or Kill? |
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Expectations about eldercare |
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What to do with older people? |
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PART FOUR DANGER AND RESPONSE |
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Chapter 7 Constructive Paranoia |
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Just a stick in the ground |
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Chapter 8 Lions and Other Dangers |
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Dangers of traditional life |
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Unpredictable food shortages |
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Seasonality and food storage |
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Aggregation and dispersal |
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PART FIVE RELIGION, LANGUAGE, AND HEALTH |
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Chapter 9 What Electric Eels Tell Us About the Evolution of Religion |
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Functions and electric eels |
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The search for causal explanations |
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Religion's function of explanation |
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Organization and obedience |
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Codes of behavior towards strangers |
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Measures of religious success |
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Changes in religion's functions |
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Chapter 10 Speaking in Many Tongues |
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The world's language total |
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Geography of language diversity |
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Traditional multilingualism |
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Are minority languages harmful? |
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How can we protect languages? |
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Chapter 11 Salt, Sugar, Fat, and Sloth |
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Non-communicable diseases |
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Genes, environment, and diabetes |
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Pima Indians and Nauru Islanders |
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Benefits of genes for diabetes |
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Why is diabetes low in Europeans? |
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The future of non-communicable diseases |
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Epilogue: At Another Airport |
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Advantages of the modern world |
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Advantages of the traditional world |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Further Readings |
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| Index |
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| Illustration Credits |
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