raghu wrote: > .. is it nevertheless > not true that industrial societies are orders of magnitude bigger, > more interconnected and more complex than tribal cultures? In the same > way that a large factory is more complex than a garage workshop.
In reading Raymond Firth's classic (1957) anthropological study, "We the Tikopia," I was impressed with how complex their society was in terms of kinship relations and the like. I'd guess that the difference between "us" and "them" is more a matter of technology than complexity _per se_. (In simple terms, we were able to conquer them, but they couldn't conquer us.) -- Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
