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infant and child care, 190–91, 193

military technology, 142

Talheim pit burial, 134–35

war mortality, 139–40, 319

gift-giving, 61, 62, 65–67, 94

gluttony, 444, 445, plate 27

Goetz, Bernhard, 107

Goland, Carol, 304, 305–6

Goldman, Ron, 112

Goodale, Jane, 91, 216, 284

gossip, 274

government. See political organization; states

Grady, Mark, 107–8

grandparents, 187, 188, 218, 236–37

See also elders

Great Basin Shoshone Indians, 27 fig., 47–48, 156, 315–16

food storage, 309 table, 310, 311, 315–16

Great Plains Indians, 151, 309 table, 311

See also specific groups

Greenland Inuit, 156, 381

Greenland Norse, 290, 308

Gretzky, Wayne, 270, 283

group affiliation, 16, 49–54, 75–76, 343

language and, 376, 407–8

religions as social groups, 329, 330, 331, 332, 343–44, 363, 368

territoriality and, 43, 45, 47, 50–51

See also enemies; friends; social bonds; strangers

Guarani language, 398

Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 19

Gwembe Tonga farmers, 314

Hadza people, 26 fig., 188, 200, 218, plates 5, 21

Haitian revolution, 138

Handwerker, W. Penn, 347

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

Harvard investments, 307, plate 45

head-hunting, 151, 158–59

healers (shamans), 297–98, 339, 348, 355–56

health, 24, 31–32, 410–51

Alzheimer’s disease, 392–95

of elders, 231

infections, 281–82

learning from traditional societies, 414, 462, 465

See also diabetes; disease(s); hypertension; mortality

Hebrews, ancient, 229, 230

Heider, Karl, 59, 120, 127, 203

Heine, Steven, 8

Henrich, Joseph, 8

herding societies, 15, 16, 19

children in, 194, 195–96, 198

elders in, 229, 230

food and food storage, 301, 309 table, 311

See also specific groups

hermits, 330, 353

Hewlett, Bonnie, 456

high blood pressure. See hypertension

Hill, Kim, 178

See also Ache Indians

Hindi, 372

hippopotamus, 280

Holmberg, Allan, 60, 179, 215, 297, 444 table

Hopi Indians, 214

horses, 158

Howell, Nancy, 178–79, 212, 287, 288

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 191

Huangdi neijing suwen, 418

hunter-gatherer societies, 7, 353

breast-feeding and birth intervals, 179–81, 182–83

child autonomy, 196–200

child care, 187–88

child punishment, 194–95

egalitarianism, 13, 14, 197, 198

food acquisition and scarcity, 187, 301, 309 table, 315–16

infant-parent contact, 181–82, 184

information sources and quality, 478

multi-age playgroups, 201–2

political organization and, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17–18

war in, 139, 156

See also nomadism; specific peoples

hunting, 348

children’s training, 203–4, 205–6, 349

hazards of, 271, 272–73, 278, 279 table, 280, 281, 284–85

salt intake and, 415

territoriality and, 42–43

uncertainty of success, 300–303

Hurtado, A. Magdalena, 178

See also Ache Indians

Hutterite colonies, 363

hyenas, 154–55

hygiene, 293–94, 296–97

hypertension, 4, 31, 32, 292, 411, 417–28

causes, 421–25

salt intake and, 417–21, 423–25

Iceland Norse, 290

Icelandic language, 401

identity. See group affiliation

Iliad, 143

independence, 224

child autonomy, 173–74, 188–89, 192, 196–200, 205, 208–9

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