The World Until Yesterday

food storage, 309 table, 313

language diversity, 376, 380

map, 26 fig.

salt intake, 419, 420, 421, 426–27

See also specific countries and peoples

Asmat people, 158

atheism, 325, 330, 354–55

Atkins, J. D. C., 399

Atran, Scott, 327 table, 344

Australia

diabetes in, 438 table

See also Aboriginal Australia

Austronesian expansion, 380, 381, 396

autonomy. See independence

Auyana people, 148–49

Azande people, 341 table

Aztec Empire, 140

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 449, plate 28

Baliem Valley, 57

Harvard expedition, 119–20, 122, 132, 153

See also Dani people

Baltic languages, 399

bands, 14–15, 18

Bantu languages, 380, 381, 396

Bantu peoples, 51, 66, 70, 72, 187, 188

Bellah, Robert, 327 table

Bengali language, 372

Berndt, Catherine, 94

Berndt, Ronald, 94, 272

bilingualism, 382, 386–92, 400, 402–3

See also multilingualism

Bird-David, Nurit, 205

birds, 186

Bismarck, Otto von, 193

black mamba, 283–84

blood pressure, 417–18

See also hypertension

Bofi Pygmies, 181

Bonampak murals, 136

bonobos, 154

Borodkin, Sophie, 397, plate 47

Bougainville Island, 395–96

boundaries. See territoriality

Bowles, Samuel, 139

Boyer, Pascal, 344

breast-feeding, 175, 179–83, 208

Breton language, 399, 465

Britain

child-rearing, 191, 193

salt intake, 427

sugar intake, 428–29

in the World Wars, 127, 407

Broekhuijse, Jan, 54, 120, 133

Buddhism, 328, 329, 330, 352

bureaucracies, 11, 15

Butler, Samuel, 193

California Indians, 309 table, 381

See also specific groups

Calusa Indians, 16, 17, 27 fig., 68 table, 146

Canada

French language in, 375, 403, 404, 409

native languages, 376, 377, 381

cannibalism, 159, 246

cassowary, 249, 269

The Castle (Kafka), 11–12

Catholicism, 341 table, 363, 364

causal explanations

disease responses and, 296, 297–98, 339

human cognition and, 336–40

religion and, 329, 340, 345–46, 367 fig.

cave paintings, 340, plate 25

Celtic languages, 396, 399, 401, 408

Chagnon, Napoleon, 132, 158, 163

Cherokee Indians, 406

chiefdoms, 16–17, 201

dispute resolution, 95–97, 115

religion, 356–57, 368

warfare, 141, 146, 147, 148

See also specific peoples

Child of the Jungle (Kuegler), 133, 480–81

children, 24, 30, 173–209, 213

adoptions, 189

autonomy of, 173–74, 188–89, 192, 196–200, 205, 208–9, 459–60

breast-feeding and birth intervals, 177–78, 179–83, 208

child development scholarship, 174–76

child-rearing practices compared, 206–9

childbirth, 176–77, 187–88

discipline and punishment, 192–96, 208

elders and, 187, 188, 218, 236–37

empty-nest syndrome, 233

fathers and allo-parents, 178, 186–90, 208

infant-adult physical contact, 181–82, 183–86, 199, 208

infant and child mortality, 176–77, 179, 180, 218, 231, 290

infant bilingualism, 391–92

infanticide, 177–79, 286, 287

learning from traditional societies, 25, 174–76, 207–9, 462–63

multi-age playgroups, 200–202

play and education, 202–6, 208, 285–86

responses to crying infants, 190–92, 208