Hierarchies and the ownership of land. ((sigh}} The two primary causes of most wars.
You know, I've wondered before about the modern use of the word "husband"ry as both sexes have maintained the animals for many centuries now. Thousands of years after farming created tracts of land so nomadic herding was no longer necessary in most regions of the world, that term remains alive and in frequent use today, as does patriarchy. I continually question the concept of evolution!
Herding, rather than husbandry, is described by Anke Becker as an important origin of male dominance. I feel it led to patriarchy, but also had an impact on societies beyond the herding cultures because it was where zoonotic diseases passed through the species barrier. The die-off for them happened over the generations but it happened much faster when they contacted people who had no resistance. Plagues were the result but again the survivors were the carriers. Much later still it hit the Indigenous people anywhere the Europeans made contact.
Georges Sioui calls it 'the accident' because even though up to 90% of people died, neither side really knew about its roots. It was the major singular cause of the population collapse and it killed, not the warriors, but the young and the Elders.
Once we are all carriers, it may be possible to move forward and in the meantime the struggle is to maintain Indigenous values.
Hierarchies formed elsewhere, when the male takes the lead in a case of a destabilization. They don't bring longterm stability but they do bring the hierarchies, and that eventually fails. I see these hierarchies as the monumental cultures that rose and collapsed. I call the ruins, among the most studied aspect of our past, phallic mounds.
Hierarchies and the ownership of land. ((sigh}} The two primary causes of most wars.
You know, I've wondered before about the modern use of the word "husband"ry as both sexes have maintained the animals for many centuries now. Thousands of years after farming created tracts of land so nomadic herding was no longer necessary in most regions of the world, that term remains alive and in frequent use today, as does patriarchy. I continually question the concept of evolution!
Herding, rather than husbandry, is described by Anke Becker as an important origin of male dominance. I feel it led to patriarchy, but also had an impact on societies beyond the herding cultures because it was where zoonotic diseases passed through the species barrier. The die-off for them happened over the generations but it happened much faster when they contacted people who had no resistance. Plagues were the result but again the survivors were the carriers. Much later still it hit the Indigenous people anywhere the Europeans made contact.
Georges Sioui calls it 'the accident' because even though up to 90% of people died, neither side really knew about its roots. It was the major singular cause of the population collapse and it killed, not the warriors, but the young and the Elders.
Once we are all carriers, it may be possible to move forward and in the meantime the struggle is to maintain Indigenous values.
Hierarchies formed elsewhere, when the male takes the lead in a case of a destabilization. They don't bring longterm stability but they do bring the hierarchies, and that eventually fails. I see these hierarchies as the monumental cultures that rose and collapsed. I call the ruins, among the most studied aspect of our past, phallic mounds.
As usual Joe always hits the mark!
Very insightful, and clearly the result of well-executed research.