https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog daily 0.75 2022-04-16 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2022/4/16/appeasing-the-dead monthly 0.5 2022-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/bc3183bd-5898-4a6b-83c0-3ad5ed9a3d27/sdfdsfsfdsdfdffds.PNG Blog - Appeasing the Dead - Make it stand out Mourning Custom, Central Australia. "The two widows of a man who has recently died are here shown. They have cut off their hair and daubed themselves with clay, and have built for themselves a shelter of boughs away from the main camp. In the photograph is shown a digging-stick, with the pointed end of which the women cut open their scalps as a sign of their sorrow. These women are forbidden to speak again until the conclusion of the mourning ceremonies, which do not take place till many months after the death." From ‘Customs of the World’ (1922). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/cac42fa7-f6a0-4c0b-9e24-be221d974803/afsdfadsfdafsd.png Blog - Appeasing the Dead - Make it stand out From ‘Tiwi Wives’ (1971) by Jane C. Goodale. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2022/1/20/the-fishbowl-trick monthly 0.5 2022-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/e80fcf04-c190-4fd3-b18a-94924d72da5d/572927.jpg Blog - The Fishbowl Trick - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/ec5945f5-3985-4af2-b878-4631272122d2/chung-ling-soo.jpg Blog - The Fishbowl Trick - Make it stand out Poster of ‘Chung Ling Soo’ aka William Ellsworth Robinson’s “Condemned to Death by the Boxers” trick. Robinson would ultimately die while performing this trick in 1918, due in part to a failure to maintain and keep clean the trick gun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/d8b68067-7fee-4087-a2c5-655952517fa1/_methode_times_prod_web_bin_a771fbcc-3c85-11ec-a9ce-48a11f44f00d.png Blog - The Fishbowl Trick - Make it stand out ‘Morning Star Bear’ aka Dr. Carrie Bourassa on stage performing during her 2019 TEDx talk. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2021/11/26/leopard-society-and-the-man-leopard-murders monthly 0.5 2021-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1b4832e2-83fd-4dee-9c9b-c4db0d2e6ce2/sfdafdsafdas.PNG Blog - Leopard Society and the Man-Leopard Murders - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/7c900ba5-abdc-4d0f-b4ad-c52eff70748e/kslgddksdg.PNG Blog - Leopard Society and the Man-Leopard Murders - Make it stand out "Southern Etun Ngbe Performance, Nkanda Grade. Middle Cross River.” from Ottenberg & Knudsen (1985). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/625f4ce7-4826-49cb-8eb4-e29609cb24d7/fdafdslkf.PNG Blog - Leopard Society and the Man-Leopard Murders - Make it stand out Summary of former district offer J.A.G. McCall’s argument, from The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria (2007) by David Pratten. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2021/10/17/tickle-fight-diplomacy-and-other-methods-of-greeting-and-conflict-management monthly 0.5 2021-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1634500729682-TCUG6JPOAJO0GSDZZH06/640px-Duelo_a_garrotazos%2C_por_Goya.jpg Blog - Tickle-fight Diplomacy, and Other Methods of Greeting and Conflict Management - Make it stand out Fight with Cudgels, Francisco Goya, c. 1820. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1634500777907-EFILTS63TUTL25YYN8ZO/arunta.PNG Blog - Tickle-fight Diplomacy, and Other Methods of Greeting and Conflict Management - Make it stand out “Ochre-drawing of spear-boomerang duel,” of Arunta hunter-gatherers of Australia. From Basedow (1925). https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2021/2/5/the-limits-of-the-proposed-behavioral-immune-system monthly 0.5 2021-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1612594100387-WGS9P8LBD06Z61FP9ZVM/D7yWeAsUcAc6D6-.png Blog - The limits of the proposed 'behavioral immune system' Andaman Island girl wearing her sister’s skull. From Radcliffe-Brown (1922). https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/12/29/the-creation-of-men-and-women-in-hunter-gatherer-societies monthly 0.5 2020-12-29 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/12/13/book-review-humankind-by-rutger-bregman monthly 0.5 2020-12-14 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/9/8/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-gets-polygyny-wrong monthly 0.5 2020-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1599556659543-7K3PPZF4TWGZY9F2QLRM/polgyny.PNG Blog - 'The WEIRDest People in the World' gets polygyny wrong Cross-cultural codes for the SCCS, from Murdock & Wilson (1972). https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/5/2/does-male-competition-help-explain-human-sex-differences-in-body-size monthly 0.5 2020-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1588478999364-IK15C5OPXFW465IJXD4C/sldakdg.PNG Blog - Does Male Competition Help Explain Human Sex Differences in Body Size? From Plavcan (2001). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1588479107009-CM6D6YWKCYCT5VYXD33P/DSzdqBLVwAAnrAZ.jpg Blog - Does Male Competition Help Explain Human Sex Differences in Body Size? From ‘The Evolution of the Human Mating System’ by Muller & Pilbeam, in Chimpanzees and Human Evolution (2017) edited by Muller, Wrangham & Pilbeam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1588716343587-EQC7VY8Q9TFAJECVCQ94/F2.medium.gif Blog - Does Male Competition Help Explain Human Sex Differences in Body Size? “Comparing weighted effect sizes of men’s status on measures of RS, from the model with subsistence as the only covariate, with effects of male dominance rank on mating success in nonhuman primates (16). Minimal variation was found across subsistence types, yet as a group, humans have significantly lower effects of male status on reproduction compared with nonhuman primates. Point size and line width are proportional to the number of results contributing to each weighted effect size.” From von Rueden & Jaeggi (2016). Men’s status and reproductive success in 33 nonindustrial societies: Effects of subsistence, marriage system, and reproductive strategy. PNAS https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/4/28/conceptual-issues-with-evolutionary-psychology-the-case-of-the-mate-killing-module monthly 0.5 2020-05-06 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/2/27/book-review-not-born-yesterday monthly 0.5 2020-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1582843720622-8QA71IYFPMU62NSLA4II/gsag.PNG Blog - Book Review: Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier “When outcomes of uncertainty are controlled by invisible forces, cultural selection will favor individuals who claim special abilities of interacting with those forces.” Figure from ‘The cultural evolution of shamanism’ (2017) by Manvir Singh. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/1/23/contests-between-equals-men-and-beasts monthly 0.5 2020-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1579849676599-G01WXNZBIHAL0P82U9PW/opwepotw.PNG Blog - Contests Between Equals: Men and Beasts “An Assiniboine running a Buffalo. Drawn by an Assiniboine warrior and hunter.” From Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri (1961) by Edwin Thompson Denig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1579849183564-UGTU161T3JBJTWCGT6F8/lkasdkdgsdg.PNG Blog - Contests Between Equals: Men and Beasts !Kung hunters. From Lee (1979) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1579848995096-QAQIGGTAWPCOT19IJ94I/kodiak.PNG Blog - Contests Between Equals: Men and Beasts Kodiak whaling mask. From Desson (1995) https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2020/1/12/ethnographic-evidence-conflicts-with-the-cold-winters-hypothesis monthly 0.5 2021-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1578887187836-5TFU5Z35W8UHGR0RMIKI/asldgkad.PNG Blog - Ethnographic Evidence Conflicts With The 'Cold Winters' Hypothesis From Cordain et al. (2000). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1582663588321-AP5F80R3D7JQNZDS18MQ/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-jA04Ok5TkxAs3U.jpg Blog - Ethnographic Evidence Conflicts With The 'Cold Winters' Hypothesis From Lowie (1963) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1578887877386-ZIHXIO57GNFKBGSB6SN7/asmat.PNG Blog - Ethnographic Evidence Conflicts With The 'Cold Winters' Hypothesis Bis-pole of the Asmat sedentary fisher-foragers of New Guinea. From Knauft (1993) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1578887900713-6NTUPL8T3SAAP8ZGOSQG/haidpnw.PNG Blog - Ethnographic Evidence Conflicts With The 'Cold Winters' Hypothesis House and totem pole of the Haida sedentary fisher-foragers of British Columbia. From Murdock (1934). https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/12/3/the-bullroarer monthly 0.5 2019-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1575363653801-AW756HIB849KR02QT8HU/bullroareer.PNG Blog - The Bullroarer Figure 1. “The bull-roarer and buzzer were both well known to the Gros Ventre, but seem to be only children's toys. They were both called nakaantan ("making cold," a name given also to the thermometer), probably from the widespread Indian idea that the bull-roarer breeds wind.” From Kroeber, 1908. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1575362471819-J74NEXQWQJ45F3EFHDYD/vkjdsg.PNG Blog - The Bullroarer Table 1. Functions of bullroarers in hunter-gatherer societies in the eHRAF World Cultures database. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1575361312921-ZN2SSJGSRY0KK8VYQ1Z9/1bull.PNG Blog - The Bullroarer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1575361327445-LQZWPP45RKYOOQNAC7MC/2bull.PNG Blog - The Bullroarer Table 2. From Haddon (1898): “I have drawn up the following table in order that we may see at a glance the various purposes for which the bull-roarer is employed, and the different places where it is so used. I have marked with a X those places where that particular use is an universal practice (or very nearly so); the / means that some tribes only use it for that purpose, and a ? indicates that I believe this to be, or to have been, its use.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1575361623984-FWJVP3WFQ8TFHRHR9VAZ/comparison+of+diff+bullroarers.PNG Blog - The Bullroarer From The Study of Man (1898) by Alfred C. Haddon. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/10/4/sacred-metal monthly 0.5 2019-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1570254010726-YLGSI1U7GH3JLZRXEBFD/kgjsgdgd.PNG Blog - Sacred Metal Elephant Mask, Komo society https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/9/11/margaret-mead-reo-fortune-and-the-loving-deception-of-the-mountain-arapesh monthly 0.5 2021-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1568250030504-5XKDCAFFIO1JIBND4XWW/skldkdgs.PNG Blog - Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and the 'Loving Deception' of the Mountain Arapesh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1568250062676-G3TYCZWF7ZTLNERNCS1B/dgkljadsg.PNG Blog - Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and the 'Loving Deception' of the Mountain Arapesh Table 1. Patriarchal social norms described by Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune among the Mountain Arapesh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1568250132964-DSI92L31ETEJNG3W2VPO/safasd.PNG Blog - Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune, and the 'Loving Deception' of the Mountain Arapesh “Arapesh men play the sacred flutes, and women and children must hide.” From Mead’s Letters from the Field, 1925-1975. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/7/5/eternal-subjugation monthly 0.5 2019-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1562377709980-KPMTZV7V818PVHI55H90/ewdsg.PNG Blog - Eternal Subjugation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1562377754186-CDWJUT8V1HUKLGWVMBJN/Ur+PG+1237+Great+Death+Pit..PNG Blog - Eternal Subjugation ‘Great Death Pit’ https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/5/12/sexual-selection-through-mate-choice-does-not-explain-the-evolution-of-art-and-music monthly 0.5 2021-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1557693534322-1Y3L667Q2PSBSOQZKF9O/kNEKSZfe.jpg Blog - Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music Artwork from the New Guinea Ilahita Arapesh’s men house. Left: “Nggwal Bunafunei statue, showing a piglet drinking from the penis of a cult spirit while the mother pig looks on from above (1971)” and Right: “The door to inner sanctum of the Nggwal Bunafunei spirit house stands open, due to the temporary removal of the sacred pipes and drums (1971)”. From The Cassowary’s Revenge (1997) by Donald Tuzin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1557688373715-FKRSCHKE3V3GV0AS23ZO/hfdklfdh.PNG Blog - Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music “If, peradventure, an unauthorized person happens upon the sanctified place, he is killed and buried immediately beneath the spot occupied by the design…” from The Australian aboriginal (1925) by Herbert Basedow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1557689848859-YW90PII9GEL0EDYSJN48/ewtet.PNG Blog - Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music From The Australian aboriginal (1925) by Herbert Basedow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1557688954952-Y890JP2AWJW9JZ0N8NY0/tabl1.PNG Blog - Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1557688986424-LG3S5MX4PG1CL9CBB2ZL/tabl2.PNG Blog - Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music Table from ‘A natural history of song’ by Mehr et al. Music is produced in many diverse contexts across societies, pointing to multiple pathways where one can gain status or fitness benefits from making it. Music may be particularly effective or important for courting in some societies, but this is only one of dozens of contexts where music occurs around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1557687968753-AHRUM2QFMFENRK1EGDG0/QKBBTKFu.jpg Blog - Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music Huichol peyote design. From the volume Art in small-scale societies (1993) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1557689604086-YMBULZ0O1DDTWIJHR968/ImpNFv80+%282%29.jpg Blog - Sexual Selection Through Mate Choice Does Not Explain the Evolution of Art and Music "Brocaded end of machiy by Josephina Waisemal," from Art in small-scale societies (1993) https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/4/1/the-assassins-footprint monthly 0.5 2019-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1554181590356-L4LFAVUR5S2VLTLTOG3P/img.PNG Blog - The Assassin's Footprint From Our Primitive Contemporaries (1934) by George Murdock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1554183350730-RDRZ7RCESLTDFCCR3OZY/HUNTA.PNG Blog - The Assassin's Footprint From The Australian Aboriginal (1925) by Herbert Basedow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1554183597490-BUXCDNX24XD6A3QO1G22/ijklge.PNG Blog - The Assassin's Footprint From The Australian Aboriginal (1925) by Herbert Basedow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1554184705259-XYRZR9LW2O80P5S69N0U/sdgasg.PNG Blog - The Assassin's Footprint https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/2/23/notes-on-nggwal monthly 0.5 2019-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1550976596550-SK9K4P1XYIZGDWZRVDTQ/fssad.JPG Blog - Notes on Nggwal “Hangamu'w with crimped-leaf homicide badges.” from The Voice of the Tambaran (1980) by Donald Tuzin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1550977402304-L2F52N7MZZ06MIRICU6L/nggwal.JPG Blog - Notes on Nggwal "The spirit house of Nggwal Walipeine [the top initiation rank], Ilahita village." from The Voice of the Tambaran (1980) by Donald Tuzin https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/1/4/charlatanism-realms-of-deception-and-religious-theater monthly 0.5 2019-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1546671429176-0S8Z9XTZ46FVBRCCNHBG/askgsadg.JPG Blog - Charlatanism: realms of deception and religious theater “The helping spirit amô, called by the tied up angakkoq, enters a house during a séance. The drum is seen floating across the floor. Karale Andreassen, The National Museum of Denmark. From Ib Geertsen (1990): Kârale Andreassen. En østgrønlandsk kunstner, Atuakkiorfik, Nuuk.” From ‘Shamanism: Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing’ (1999) by Merete Demant Jakobsen†. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1546671319605-EBO9QXU8GHGHWPN85G5K/fssad.JPG Blog - Charlatanism: realms of deception and religious theater Arapesh men’s ritual costume. From The Voice of the Tambaran: Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh (1980) by Donald Tuzin. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/12/18/the-mommas-boy-strategy-why-bonobo-males-tend-not-to-form-coalitions monthly 0.5 2020-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1545201836333-984NYXVX4RLG3UHHEGY1/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Momma's Boy Strategy: Why Bonobo Males Tend Not To Form Coalitions “Mean number of oestrous females in proximity of focal males in relation to absence (filled squares) or presence (open circles) of the male's mother. For all but the highest ranking male, the number of oestrous females in proximity was higher when the mother was also in proximity.” From ‘Mothers matter! Maternal support, dominance status and mating success in male bonobos (Pan paniscus)’ https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/12/15/why-headhunting-mens-cults-develop-in-lowland-riverine-rainforest-areas monthly 0.5 2019-05-05 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/12/11/academic-resources monthly 0.5 2021-12-27 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/11/28/sex-revenge-and-the-social-fabric monthly 0.5 2020-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1543394357526-BFRDJTEVA8HIAZ4I2LBK/jsdkaglk.JPG Blog - Sex, Revenge, and the Social Fabric A Mursi dueling bout in progress. From ‘The Social Organisation of the Mursi: a pastoral tribe of the Lower Omo Valley, South West Ethiopia’ by D.A. Turton https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/11/12/the-politics-of-chimpanzee-societies monthly 0.5 2018-11-12 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/10/28/initiation-prelude-fiction monthly 0.5 2018-10-28 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/10/21/omens-of-war-and-the-function-of-prophecy monthly 0.5 2019-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1540188026448-C1NRB7J6T6EGXQLSKU7Q/gdljasg.JPG Blog - Omens of War and the Promise of Prophecy The intestines of a stock animal are examined during Mursi divination. From ‘War, Peace and Mursi Identity’ (1979) by David Turton. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/8/23/forbidden-utterances-naming-the-dead monthly 0.5 2022-10-06 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/8/9/taking-a-wife monthly 0.5 2019-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1533876516277-F3HH2IV94WHTOY4NBJBS/800px-Giambologna_sabine.jpg Blog - Taking a wife The Kidnapping of the Sabine Women (1574–82) by Giambologna. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/8/1/the-cause-of-illness monthly 0.5 2019-07-05 https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/7/6/the-nature-of-sorcery monthly 0.5 2019-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1530913155825-2EF465HGZOLHM7JGI71C/xMZv.JPG Blog - The Social Dynamics of Sorcery Pirai, a kanaimà’san, also known as a “dark shaman” or killer shaman. From Dark Shamans: Kanaimà and the Poetics of Violent Death (2002) by Neil Whitehead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1530913244705-A7O9I40WHSRFYP47J7VZ/sdfkagd.JPG Blog - The Social Dynamics of Sorcery “When outcomes of uncertainty are controlled by invisible forces, cultural selection will favor individuals who claim special abilities of interacting with those forces.” Figure from ‘The cultural evolution of shamanism’ (2017) by Manvir Singh, published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/6/19/visceral-insulation monthly 0.5 2019-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1529464511520-AFKTZUNG7SHM0SUVHSVA/ifjaehg.JPG Blog - Ritual mutilation, human consumption, and contemporary insulation Heads taken by the Iban people of Borneo. From The pagan tribes of Borneo (1912) by Charles Hose https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/6/9/a-tale-of-sorcery-and-marriage-among-the-gebusi monthly 0.5 2018-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1528611094696-KPC9ALADNHCK7H7LI2YK/geabugds.JPG Blog - A Tale of Sorcery and Marriage Among the Gebusi https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/6/7/the-human-penis-is-remarkably-boring monthly 0.5 2018-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1528427195620-ZX2TM8RLEC06RUSNVSXH/chrisryan.JPG Blog - The Human Penis is Remarkably Boring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1528427289270-SVEVVQNKAR37Q81ZPXDR/peniasgd.JPG Blog - The Human Penis is Remarkably Boring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1528427726073-C7DI5BHKUHJT7B9912BQ/ldsag.JPG Blog - The Human Penis is Remarkably Boring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1528427768571-MPJZUJ6RADTW6MVDR435/grapha.JPG Blog - The Human Penis is Remarkably Boring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1528427840462-8Y3SCDYFI4R60OAIQKBN/lkasdg.JPG Blog - The Human Penis is Remarkably Boring https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1528427907417-9BII8HB6DHIV8FPYQX0I/peniasg.JPG Blog - The Human Penis is Remarkably Boring https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/5/24/yanomami-warfare-how-much-did-napoleon-chagnon-get-right monthly 0.5 2020-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1527175682638-YEPTQSH9XXV8IG0OQBPY/rewaegasdgd.JPG Blog - Yanomami Warfare: How Much Did Napoleon Chagnon Get Right? Table from 'The Role of Rewards in Motivating Participation in Simple Warfare' (2013) by Glowacki & Wrangham. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/4/19/head-in-hands-notes-on-the-extraction-and-display-of-human-heads monthly 0.5 2020-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1524207583818-VP939D47LU55LPVUV93D/sladkfs.JPG Blog - Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads Neolithic plastered skulls with shell pieces used as eyes, in situ. From the paper 'The Plastered Skulls and Other PPNB Finds from Yiftahel, Lower Galilee (Israel)' by Milevski et al. (2014), published in Plos One. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1524205826660-85RC6ZSUWLB5FNYBCUNS/table.JPG Blog - Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads Various archaeological and ethnographic examples of human bone modification. From the paper 'Modified human crania from Göbekli Tepe provide evidence for a new form of Neolithic skull cult' by Gresky et al. (2017), published in Science. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1524206402685-F0LC5RZFFJGQF9D8SYO6/headd.JPG Blog - Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads 9,000 year old skull with amputated hands placed over the face. From the paper 'The Oldest Case of Decapitation in the New World (Lapa do Santo, East-Central Brazil)' by Strauss et al. (2015), published in Plos One https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1524205243193-XLFGXI2ZUCQGJCA3A3N3/salome.JPG Blog - Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (c. 1607) by Caravaggio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1524209314037-TLEP21829RKHS10MTJ36/warhreads.JPG Blog - Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads Wall decoration depicting Assyrian warriors carrying severed heads during the siege at Lachish (8th-7th century BC). From the British Museum; photo by Ferrell Jenkins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1524206156371-YB9YL3N3XYFH7DVZ2EAX/headhunting+celtic.JPG Blog - Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads Table noting various classical sources that describe Celtic headhunting. From Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe (2012), by Ian Armit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1524206455548-XKZDQ955ELGIKOGK9MXX/ifuago+warrior.JPG Blog - Head in Hands: Notes on the Extraction and Display of Human Heads Ifugao warrior showing the heads he has taken from his enemies. From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon (1912) by Cornelis Wilcox. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/3/27/the-dilemma-of-the-deserted-husband-and-why-polygyny-is-more-common-than-polyandry-across-cultures monthly 0.5 2019-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1522213412451-U3J7UF156M7TC7YWYF15/polyadnry.JPG Blog - The Dilemma of the Deserted Husband (and why polygyny is more common than polyandry) Table from 'A Survey of Non-Classical Polyandry' (2012) by Starkweather & Hames illustrating the factors most commonly associated with polyandry. https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/3/20/the-violent-history-of-peaceful-societies monthly 0.5 2019-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1521618503973-J5VVVJNHOVS0T4Z6UDT3/smemaf.JPG Blog - The sad and violent history of 'peaceful societies' Semai man wearing the Shamanic Headman's Dress. "The blowpipe and dart quiver are emblems of Semai identity." - From Overwhelming Terror (2008) by Robert Dentan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1521611261446-3231OEXDPZBP0NXCBY4P/FullSizeR%281%29.jpg Blog - The sad and violent history of 'peaceful societies' A scarred G/wi woman. From Hunter and Habitat in the Central Kalahari Desert (1981) by George B. 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Picture from The Rope of Moka (1971) by Andrew Strathern. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1521350557309-T3INSYIFNNAU85LX89ZS/femchimp.JPG Blog - Where are the matriarchies? Female chimpanzee, Zwart, with her one-year old daughter, Zola. From de Waal's Chimpanzee Politics (1982). https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/1/31/on-secret-cults-and-male-dominance monthly 0.5 2019-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1517445395264-36QI3IANZB6N7JW2CM02/dfafdsc.JPG Blog - On secret cults and male dominance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1517445442506-Y4IPCPFRPGUXKUKVLORG/costus.JPG Blog - On secret cults and male dominance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1517445188772-CN73ZG2NJLDHDQ514SWH/spirithus.JPG Blog - On secret cults and male dominance Nggwal Bunafunei spirit house (men’s house). From ‘The Cassowary’s Revenge’ (1997) by Donald Tuzin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1517445272845-9C7WWMSJE3O7IQ8WXO0X/fssad.JPG Blog - On secret cults and male dominance Arapesh men’s ritual costume. From The Voice of the Tambaran: Truth and Illusion in Ilahita Arapesh (1980) by Donald Tuzin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1517462147583-67SKD2GFZ55O360TXJ9V/maskssf.JPG Blog - On secret cults and male dominance Drawings of Alaskan ceremonial masks. From 'The Eskimo about Bering Strait' (1900) by Edward Nelson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1517464650503-8ERWCVZ2PF66IBM56BME/fluteslfdsk.JPG Blog - On secret cults and male dominance "An older initiate shows how to suck the flute." - From 'The Sambia: Ritual, Sexuality, and Change in Papua New Guinea' (2006) by Gilbert Herdt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1517551909326-MLU84BYFSSXKL2BTKZUU/shafts.JPG Blog - On secret cults and male dominance Drawings of perforated batons found at various Paleolithic sites across Europe. From 'The Nature of Paleolithic Art' (2005) by R. Dale Guthrie. https://traditionsofconflict.com/the-spirit-house daily 0.75 2019-11-13 https://traditionsofconflict.com/the-spirit-house/2019/11/12/los-angeles monthly 0.5 2020-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1573604865241-FASDSHPS4O1WTDU2PG25/haunting-of-hill-house-1-1540496829.jpg New Blog - Los Angeles Los Angeles. https://traditionsofconflict.com/the-spirit-house/2019/6/14/turning-on-tuning-in-and-desperately-wishing-you-could-change-the-channel monthly 0.5 2020-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a68d8267131a5a15e950974/1560575589474-6I88VO39GXDLHRTSD07E/1280px-Great_Goddess_of_Teotihuacan_%28T_Aleto%29.jpg New Blog - Turning on, Tuning in, and Desperately Wishing You Could Change the Channel “This reproduction of one of the murals depicting the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan from the Tepantitla apartment complex located at Teotihuacan is in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.” Archaeologist Peter Furst argues that the mural depicts the morning glory vine. https://traditionsofconflict.com/about daily 0.75 2021-11-08 https://traditionsofconflict.com/publications daily 0.75 2025-04-19 https://traditionsofconflict.com/home daily 1.0 2022-05-04