Glory be to god for dappled things, for skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialDuncan Stibbard Hawkes
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
Anthropologist interested in hunter-gatherer egalitarianism | Asst Prof @BaylorAnthro.bsky.social | Editor-in-Chief, Hunter-Gatherer Research | Spelling errors my own
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialDappled things
@profaliceroberts.bsky.socialReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialA fantastic paper tackling myths with LOTS of evidence - asking: just how egalitarian are hunter-gatherer societies? Link includes a great blog too in @uk.theconversation.com
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialOr buy 25 copies at once why not!
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialA very beautifully illustrated book. I wrote the sections on inequality, war and peace, social bonding and food. Available at your favorite independent bookshop.
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social⚠️ New Paper! 📣 Egalitarianism has been tied to hunter-gatherer subsistence - but is that justified? In synthesising 30 expert commentaries, we argue that the processes underwriting hunter-gatherer egalitarianism appear in most all human societies; though their efficacy is context dependent.
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialHunter‑gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality, but the reality is more complicated
| The Conversation
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialThis may be a lost Velazquez
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialBut unlike a business UK universities cannot charge market prices for their services
@leonardocarella.bsky.socialReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialIn other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialModern behavior needs some scare quotes imho
@andrewcurry.comReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialNeanderthals were talented hunters AND home decorators. Evidence from a Spanish rock shelter includes new tool types and evidence for windbreaks and other domestic arrangements. “Now we can start to imagine the spaces they were living in,” says archaeologist @annemiekemilks.bsky.social. @science.org
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@olkcampbell.bsky.socialReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialNew Paper out now in PNAS: Is cousin marriage associated with greater or lower exposure to physical intimate partner violence and coercive control? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@davidwlawson.bsky.socialReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialAn Evil Much Exaggerated: The Consequences of Cousin Marriage.
A comment on @olkcampbell.bsky.social's excellent work on cousin marriage, intimate partner violence and coercive control.
@radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gyReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialResearchgate link for the Radical Anthropology team's BBS commentary 'Gender is critical to understanding how egalitarianism works'
#anthropology #huntergatherers #gender
@chrisvonrueden.bsky.socialReposted by @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialDescription of my work with @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social on egalitarianism: theconversation.com/hunter-gathe...
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialOh no! Her cruise line video was great!
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialI think this is the first time I've ever seen a complete numreffed bibliography in a tweet!
@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.socialI think you might be right you know!