4/16/2022 - All future articles will be at traditionsofconflict.substack.com
Cults
1/31/2018 - On secret cults and male dominance
12/15/2018 - Why headhunting men’s cults develop in lowland riverine rainforest areas
2/23/2019 - Notes on Nggwal
4/1/2019 - The Assassin’s Footprint
9/11/2019 - Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and the ‘Loving Deception’ of the Mountain Arapesh
10/4/2019 - Sacred Metal
12/3/2019 - The Bullroarer
11/26/2021 - Leopard Society and the Man-Leopard Murders
Magic
6/9/2018 - A Tale of Sorcery and Marriage Among the Gebusi
6/19/2018 - Ritual mutilation, human consumption, and contemporary insulation
7/6/2018 - The Social Dynamics of Sorcery
8/1/2018 - The Cause of Illness: brief thoughts on sorcery and science
1/4/2019 - Charlatanism: realms of deception and religious theater
1/23/2020 - Contests Between Equals: Men and Beasts
2/27/20 - Book Review: Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier
Primates
6/8/2018 - The Human Penis is Remarkably Boring
11/12/2018 - The Politics of Chimpanzee Societies
12/18/2018 - The Momma's Boy Strategy: Why Bonobo Males Tend Not To Form Coalitions
5/2/2020 - Does Male Competition Help Explain Human Sex Differences in Body Size?
War
3/21/2018 - The sad and violent history of 'peaceful societies'
4/20/2018 - Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads
5/24/2018 - Yanomami Warfare: How Much Did Napoleon Chagnon Get Right?
8/9/2018 - Taking a wife
10/21/2018 - Omens of War and the Promise of Prophecy
11/28/2018 - Sex, Revenge, and the Social Fabric
4/28/2020 - Conceptual Issues with Evolutionary Psychology: The Case of the ‘Mate-Killing Module’
Social Structure
3/18/2018 - Where are the matriarchies?
3/28/2018 - The Dilemma of the Deserted Husband (and why polygyny is more common than polyandry)
8/23/2018 - Forbidden Utterances: Naming the Dead
5/12/2019 - Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music
7/6/2019 - Eternal Subjugation
1/12/2020 - Ethnographic Evidence Conflicts With The 'Cold Winters' Hypothesis
9/8/2020 - 'The WEIRDest People in the World' gets polygyny wrong
12/13/2020 - Book Review: Humankind by Rutger Bregman
12/29/2020 - The Creation of Men and Women in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
10/17/2021 - Tickle-fight Diplomacy, and Other Methods of Greeting and Conflict Management
Miscellaneous
Fiction: Initiation Prelude
2/5/2021 - The limits of the proposed ‘behavioral immune system’
1/20/2022 - The Fishbowl Trick