"For the vast majority of human history, people made group decisions through consensus. It is perhaps the most conspicuous feature of political life among recent hunter-gatherer societies, from the Ju/’hoansi to the Aboriginal peoples of Australia to the Indigenous societies of the early Americas. As an anthropologist, I have observed consensus-based decision-making myself among hunter-gatherers in the rainforests of Malaysia."
https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ju-hoansi-can-tell-us-about-group-decision-making
Gerry McGovern /
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2024-07-26 08:41:00
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