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Hunter-Gatherers & The Search for Meaning w/ Dr. Leonard Martin
In this episode I chat with Dr. Leonard Martin, retired professor of the Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Psychology program at Georgia University. We talk about the important distinction between what James Woodburn labeled "Immediate-Return" and "Delayed-Return" societies, and how the transition from immediate-return to delayed-return transformed human culture, psychology, and behaviors. Dr. Martin has written several essays on how this transition may have affected our mental health and thoughts. In particular, how has this changed (or created) what seems like an innate human quality, the search for meaning...
Articles by Dr. Leonard Martin
I-D Compensation Theory
I-D Compensation Reply
I-D Compensation and Mindfulness
I-D Compensation and Meaning in Life
Wake-up Call from a Close Brush with Death
Hunters and Gatherers
Book Resources
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment, Edited by John Gowdy
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum, by Robert Kelly
The Diversity of Hunter-Gatherer Pasts, Edited by Bill Finlayson & Graeme Warren
The Egalitarians: Human and Chimpanzee, by Margaret Power
Essays
Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies
Egalitarian Societies, by James Woodburn
Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong
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