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Raymond Hames

@rayhames.bsky.social
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Evolutionary anthropologist (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) with interest in labor and food exchanges, small scale societies, war, wildlife conservation, marriage Home-page at rhames.unl.edu

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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
They have been working on this since 2001. Income inequality and homicide rates Canada and the United States. Here it is for US states.
state inequality and homicide
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
On the efficacy of shamanism from Mike Jay's review of M. Singh's "Shamanism".
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I just finished M. Singh's "Shamanism" and at the very end he notes this incredible anti-intellectual nonsense from our post-modern colleagues.
Account of negative reviews to researcch
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Weird and irrelevant reference padding.
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today's re-reading and noting a lovely photo of the Gunwinggu from Jon Altman's important work. They no doubt feasted for days and called in friends and relatives to join in
Successful water buffalo hunt celebration
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
When very young I fancied these were their surviving kin
Horned lizard aka horney toad
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Montaigne in "Of Cannibals" described Brazilian native Tupinamba visitors to France in 1562 and their assessment of French civilization
quote from Montaigne
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Luke Glowacki just published an excellent critique on war among mobile foragers with a focus on the work of Fry and Söderberg inter alia. I have published my own reservations of their Science paper. But Luke's paper uncovered more problems. I had to change my lecture notes to include the following
Glowacki's paperFry problems introducedList societies with war but no coded as having war
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
PLOS desk rejected it because "We don't do commentaries".
Steaming
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Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
I just received page proofs and it is not starting well.
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