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Book: The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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  1. Jared Diamond _ The World Until Yesterday:

    It's the exclusive home of 1,000 of the world's approximately 7,000 languages. It holds the largest number of societies that even in modern times still lay beyond the control of state government or were only recently influenced by state government. Its populations span a range of traditional lifestyles, from nomadic hunter-gatherers, seafarers, and lowland sago specialists to settled Highland farmers, composing groups ranging from a few dozen to 200,000 people.
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  2. Jared Diamond _ The World Until Yesterday:

    proposed as appropriate compensation. This reminds me
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  3. Jared Diamond _ The World Until Yesterday:

    transhumance-i.e., moving livestock seasonally between different altitudes in order to follow the growth of grass at higher elevations as the season advances.
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  4. Jared Diamond _ The World Until Yesterday:

    That need for police and laws and moral commandments to be nice to strangers doesn't arise in tiny societies, in which everyone knows everyone else.
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  5. Jared Diamond _ The World Until Yesterday:

    The U.S. has so many rules and regulations, because of fear of being sued, that kids give up on the opportunity for personal exploration. A pool has to be fenced so that it's not an 'attractive nuisance.' Most New Guineans don't have pools, but even the rivers that we frequented didn't have signs saying 'Jump at your own risk,' because it's obvious. Why would I jump unless I'm prepared for the consequences? Responsibility in the U.S. has been taken from the person acting and has been placed on the owner of the land or the builder of the house. Most Americans want to blame someone other than themselves as much as possible. In New Guinea I was able to grow up, play creatively, and explore the outdoors and nature freely, with the obligatory element of risk, however well managed, that is absent from the average risk-averse American childhood. I had the richest upbringing possible, an upbringing inconceivable for Americans.
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