Re: Monkeys stone herdsman in Kenya

From: Mark M. Mills (mmills@htcomp.net)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 23:21:14 GMT

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    Joe,

    At 12:41 PM 2/25/00 -0600, you wrote:
    > Who would
    >assert, for instance, that a band of baboons throwing rocks at
    >another band of baboons trying to drink water at their watering hole
    >comprised culture?

    Why not?

    > The two situations, however, are for all
    >practical purposes identical.

    Right. We have a host of anthropological work which painstakingly
    describes subtle differences in 'human water hole attack' strategies. As
    you say, this monkey attack and human variants are practically identical
    situations. I see no reason to avoid using the term culture here.

    Mark

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