Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 29/06/2026They have been working on this since 2001. Income inequality and homicide rates Canada and the United States. Here it is for US states. 010
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 06/09/2025On the efficacy of shamanism from Mike Jay's review of M. Singh's "Shamanism". 010
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I just finished M. Singh's "Shamanism" and at the very end he notes this incredible anti-intellectual nonsense from our post-modern colleagues. 241
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Today'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 010
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 17/12/2024When very young I fancied these were their surviving kin 110
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Montaigne in "Of Cannibals" described Brazilian native Tupinamba visitors to France in 1562 and their assessment of French civilization 010
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 11/09/2024Luke 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 072
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 17/03/2024PLOS desk rejected it because "We don't do commentaries". 000
Raymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 19/01/2024I just received page proofs and it is not starting well. 000