Cultural education of children among hunter-gatherers

[RonO]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241119132717.htm

The first thing that should be considered is the disconcerting fact of
how bankrupt the study of cultural anthropology has had to be to have
not realized these behaviors much earlier if these findings are
something worth making claims about at this time. How blind to reality
could these anthropologists potentially be in making the claims that
they are making? Just as blind as those that came before them?

Their claims are based on observations that should have been made
centuries ago. How sad does that make the entire field of cultural
anthropology?

I know that I am biased. As an undergraduate at Berkeley I took enough
lower and upper division anthropology classes to get an AB (the BS
degree that the College of Letters and Science gave out) if I would just
take lower division cultural anthropology and upper division cultural
anthropology. I had two years to complete those two classes, but I
refused to do it mainly because I was only interested in getting a BS
degree in Genetics from the college of Natural Resources, but cultural
anthropology at the time was just bad science. I had no interest in
taking any cultural anthropology courses. It was basically the Margaret
Mead generation of cultural anthropology.

Read the science daily article and try to figure out what should not
have been common knowledge centuries ago?

We just seem to be unable to study ourselves objectively and
intelligently. Did these researchers succeed? Is there something that
they are still missing? Are they coming to the wrong conclusions?

Ron Okimoto

[JTEM]

Post by RonO
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241119132717.htm
The first thing that should be considered is the disconcerting fact of
how bankrupt the study of cultural anthropology has had to be to have
not realized these behaviors much earlier if these findings are
something worth making claims about at this time.

It's just WokeTardia speaking. Of course modern hunter-gatherer cultures
have been studied for decades, and if there was anything to learn they
certainly did learn it. But the "Celebrate poverty of subsistence
living" and "You can't be trusted with your child's education" has taken
on a new importance, here on the Clown World, so WokeTardia needs to
invent some "New science" to drill these things into your head.

Post by RonO
Read the science daily article and try to figure out what should not
have been common knowledge centuries ago?

Why would you assume A) that this is accurate and B) that anything of
significance wasn't common knowledge many generations ago?

I am so NOT the narcissist that when I see something is stupid I just
assume that many, many others noticed as well...