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In Conversation with Jared Diamond: “Traditional Societies Are Not Frozen Models of the Past”

By The Conversation — 2013

The traditional societies that we see today are not frozen models of the past, on the one hand. On the other hand, they’re not irrelevant to the past because they are still small-scale societies. - Jared Diamond

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Cross-Cultural Dynamics