Fun review of Napoleon Chagnon’s autobiography
From Stephen Malanga over at City Journal.
His anthropology education had taught him that kinsmen—the raiders were related to those they’d attacked—were generally nice to one another. Further, he had learned in classrooms that primitive peoples rarely fought one another, because they lived a subsistence lifestyle in which there was no surplus wealth to squabble about. What other reason could humans have for being at one another’s throats?
Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.