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aggregation and dispersal, 291, 310, 315–16

agriculture. See farming

Agta people, 26 fig. , 177, 279 table , 292, plate 3

trade, 66, 70, 72, 75

Ainu people, 15, 26 fig. , 42, 44

food storage, 309 table , 310, 311

Aka Pygmies, 26 fig. , 55, plates 8, 20

child autonomy, 197, 199

child care, 187, 188, 193, plate 8

child punishment, 194, 195

environmental hazards, 278, 279 table

weaning, 181

Alaska North Slope Inuit, 27 fig. , 68 table , 71

Alaskan languages, 397, 398, 408, plate 47

Albertson, Mike, 113

Albigensian Manichaeans, 363, 364

alliances, 74–75, 90–91, 116, 291–92

treachery, 137–38, 290–91

warfare and, 120, 141–42, 143

allo-parenting, 187–90, 208

Alzheimer’s disease, 392–95

Amazonia, 18, 199, 385–86

See also specific peoples

ambushes, 120, 122, 137, 141, 144

American Civil War, 145

American Museum of Natural History, 57

American peoples, map, 27 fig.

See also specific regions, countries, and peoples

Anasazi Indian sites, 135–36

Andaman Islanders, 15, 26 fig. , 55, 139, 444 table , plate 4

children, 189, 194

trade, 65, 67, 68 table

Andean peoples

field scattering, 304–6, 338–39

food storage, 309 table , 311

language diversity and loss, 380, 401

Anderson, Robin, First Contact, 57, 58

animal domestication, 19, 295

See also herding societies; livestock

animals

animal cognition, 337, 351

dangerous animals, 199, 200, 271, 279 table , 280, 282–83, 285, 286, plate 43

infectious diseases and, 295, 297

rearing of animal young, 183, 186

thrifty-gene experiments, 446–47

warlike animals, 154–57

See also livestock; specific animals

animism, 338

Apache Indians, 144, 166

Arab countries, diabetes in, 433, 438 table , 450

Arabic language, 372, 401

Aranda Aborigines, 228

Araucanian Indians, 144, 228

archaeological evidence, 481

for trade, 60, 64

for warfare, 134–36, 150, 152

Archbold expedition, 57, 119

Archbold, Richard, 57

Arctic and Arctic peoples, 14, 214, 311, 381

maps, 26 fig. , 27 fig.

See also specific groups

arrow poisons, 281

art, 136, 340, plate 25

Asia and Asian peoples

diabetes, 430, 433, 438–39 table , 440

filial piety, 221

food storage, 309 table , 313

language diversity, 376, 380

map, 26 fig.

salt intake, 419, 420, 421, 426–27

See also specific countries and peoples

Asmat people, 158

atheism, 325, 330, 354–55

Atkins, J. D. C., 399

Atran, Scott, 327 table , 344

Australia

diabetes in, 438 table

See also Aboriginal Australia

Austronesian expansion, 380, 381, 396

autonomy. See independence

Auyana people, 148–49

Azande people, 341 table

Aztec Empire, 140

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 449, plate 28

Baliem Valley, 57

Harvard expedition, 119–20, 122, 132, 153

See also Dani people

Baltic languages, 399

bands, 14–15, 18

Bantu languages, 380, 381, 396

Bantu peoples, 51, 66, 70, 72, 187, 188

Bellah, Robert, 327 table

Bengali language, 372

Berndt, Catherine, 94

Berndt, Ronald, 94, 272

bilingualism, 382, 386–92, 400, 402–3

See also multilingualism

Bird-David, Nurit, 205

birds, 186

Bismarck, Otto von, 193

black mamba, 283–84

blood pressure, 417–18

See also hypertension

Bofi Pygmies, 181

Bonampak murals, 136

bonobos, 154

Borodkin, Sophie, 397, plate 47

Bougainville Island, 395–96

boundaries. See territoriality

Bowles, Samuel, 139

Boyer, Pascal, 344

breast-feeding, 175, 179–83, 208

Breton language, 399, 465

Britain

child-rearing, 191, 193

salt intake, 427

sugar intake, 428–29

in the World Wars, 127, 407

Broekhuijse, Jan, 54, 120, 133

Buddhism, 328, 329, 330, 352

bureaucracies, 11, 15

Butler, Samuel, 193

California Indians, 309 table , 381

See also specific groups

Calusa Indians, 16, 17, 27 fig. , 68 table , 146

Canada

French language in, 375, 403, 404, 409

native languages, 376, 377, 381

cannibalism, 159, 246

cassowary, 249, 269

The Castle (Kafka), 11–12

Catholicism, 341 table , 363, 364

causal explanations

disease responses and, 296, 297–98, 339

human cognition and, 336–40

religion and, 329, 340, 345–46, 367 fig.

cave paintings, 340, plate 25

Celtic languages, 396, 399, 401, 408

Chagnon, Napoleon, 132, 158, 163

Cherokee Indians, 406

chiefdoms, 16–17, 201

dispute resolution, 95–97, 115

religion, 356–57, 368

warfare, 141, 146, 147, 148

See also specific peoples

Child of the Jungle (Kuegler), 133, 480–81

children, 24, 30, 173–209, 213

adoptions, 189

autonomy of, 173–74, 188–89, 192, 196–200, 205, 208–9, 459–60

breast-feeding and birth intervals, 177–78, 179–83, 208

child development scholarship, 174–76

child-rearing practices compared, 206–9

childbirth, 176–77, 187–88

discipline and punishment, 192–96, 208

elders and, 187, 188, 218, 236–37

empty-nest syndrome, 233

fathers and allo-parents, 178, 186–90, 208

infant-adult physical contact, 181–82, 183–86, 199, 208

infant and child mortality, 176–77, 179, 180, 218, 231, 290

infant bilingualism, 391–92

infanticide, 177–79, 286, 287

learning from traditional societies, 25, 174–76, 207–9, 462–63

multi-age playgroups, 200–202

play and education, 202–6, 208, 285–86

responses to crying infants, 190–92, 208

transportation of, 184–85, plates 21, 38, 39

war and, 141, 146, 157, 163

chimpanzees, 157, 183, 418

China

diabetes in, 430, 438 table , 450

elder status, 221, plate 23

language diversity, 376, 377

Mandarin Chinese language, 372, 405

salt intake, 421, 426

wars involving Chinese speakers, 164

Christianity, 325, 345–46, 352, 358, 360, 361

success of, 364, 365

See also Catholicism; Mormonism

Chukchi people, 215, 216, 228, 229

Chumash Indians, 16, 17, 27 fig. , 133

Churchill, Winston, 217, 407

Cipriani, Lidio, 444 table

See also Andaman Islanders

Cistercian order, 353

Civil War, 145–46

clans, 15

climate, 307–8, 310, 377–78

cognition, 239, 405

Alzheimer’s disease, 392–95

multilingualism and, 387–95

origins of religion and, 336–40, 355

Columbus, Christopher, 14

communes, 362–63

compensation processes, 29, 87–90, 94–95, 100–101, 102–4, 112

New Guinea accidental death case, 80–81, 82–85

in state justice systems, 103–4, 112, 117

competition, age-based, 227–31

competitive play, 204

Confucianism, 221, 328

Connolly, Bob, First Contact, 57, 58

constructive paranoia, 30, 55, 243–75

See also dangers; risk; specific types of danger