Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Hunter-gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality – but the reality is more complicated

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par Duncan Stibbard Hawkes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Baylor University
Christopher von Rueden, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond

On the shores of Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania, a small number of people still hunt and gather their food. Today a Hadza hunter has taken down an animal – a kudu. He can’t carry it by himself, so he cuts his poisoned arrow from its flank, covers the carcass in dry grass to hide it from hyenas and heads home to enlist help.

News spreads like wildfire across the camp. Everybody rushes to the kill. They divide up the carcass, carry it back, then divvy it up some more. Every family gets some, and after the meat is cooked,…

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