[AustralianConservative]

http://weekendlibertarian.blogspot.com/2011/08/walking-away-from-noble-savage-myth.html

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

THe Iora people sound and smell like Democrats (a take off on the old Bob Hope comment about zombies).

[Pontiac]

Tasmanian medicine consisted mainly of “slashing the patient with deep cuts until the victim was covered with blood.” Edgerton proclaims much of Tasmanian culture “frankly maladaptive.”

Well not to defend pre-iron age culture of the people in question but Europeans were using bloodletting in medicine well in to the 18th century.

[jocon307]

ping for later.

[dr_lew]

“One common form of courtship was for a man to “fix on some female of a tribe at enmity with his own…stupefy her with blows on her head, back, neck…then drag her streaming with blood…till he reaches his tribe.”

This used to be accepted as a parodical template for modern courtship in the form of the caveman with his club dragging home his catch. One considered that this was no longer acceptable, but it was obviously not beyond contemplation.

[sinanju]

I remember an article that referenced the memoir of one early nineteenth-century escaped convict who spent twelve years with the aborigines. Contrary to the idealized, disneyfied current image the bands were continually warring with one another, such that very few men made it to middle age.

I just wish I could remember the name.

[Pollster1]

"“One common form of courtship was for a man to “fix on some female of a tribe at enmity with his own…stupefy her with blows on her head, back, neck…then drag her streaming with blood…till he reaches his tribe.”

That tradition may be making a return to Britain and other parts of the West, thanks to diversity.

[bigheadfred]

Unfortunately, The NOBEL SAVAGE...

...is no myth.

Welcome to the nightmare.

[pabianice]

Yeah? Well, “feminist anthropology” is three times as bad.