Just look at all this other stuff - it will make you feel better about the conflagration outside your door

  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    With the article being rather long, does it mention the particular tradition talked about here? I don’t doubt you’ve read it, I am just skeptical if it is a real tradition. And it’s hard to gauge that with no info

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      6 hours ago

      It does talk about leaders not owning their wealth as it was owned collectively by the tribe. No, it does not mention this specific tribe. I can’t find my anthro book either.

      I could have remembered it wrong. I spent some more time poking around the Internet this morning about chiefdoms. I still couldn’t find the specific tribe, but I learned some other interesting things.

      There does seem to be some romanticizing small groups and the concept of tribal communism. So there is definitely something to support your skepticism.