Evolutionary Anthropology. RA @HSB_Lab. Blogs on violence, magic, rituals, deception. https://t.co/vQh5ccJfdR
Dec 23, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It's probably my favorite movie ever, but one area where Eggers pulled his punches a bit was the conventional romance (which I nonetheless liked). In Saxo's account Amleth takes a second wife, but this would undoubtedly make the character less sympathetic to modern WEIRDos
Tons of moronic responses to this. Finger amputation is incredibly well-documented ethnographically all over the world. The paper this article is based on is quite good. Lots of people on here with no clue what they're talking about find this notion offensive for some reason.
