What is the basis for the Tribal view of human relationships and hence marriage.?
Our environment and our interaction with it shapes our culture or world view. The critical difference between a traditional tribal culture and our own is the concept of how we get our food - or the economy.
Preagricultural society was always on the move. They did not control their food source, they interacted with it. These two strands, mobility and integration with nature, form the base of their culture. Being on the move meant that Hunter Gatherers could only have a very small number of physical goods. The idea of property, central to a settled world view, is an unknown idea. being settled the first thing we do is to begin to accumulate goods and things. Also with agriculture and herding control of property is critical. With a settled food source - land and fixed herding grounds with "owned water" property ownership and its protection and control becomes the overwhelming worldview - So for us control has become hardwired. For the HG, property and control is unknowable ideas. Share my pot, I can always make another one. How does one control game? How does one control the weather, drought or flood?
My sense is that these ideas of property and control are the main differences between the modern world view and the HG world view. As such theory affect all aspects of the two cultures.
The HG parent does not seek to own or control her children. Discipline is not a feature of HG child rearing. Children learn by watching and experiencing. The HG husband and wife are partnered in a life and death challenge to keep the tribe, the larger unit of the two of them going. They know that their survival and future depends on the success of their interrelation with the group as a social and economic unit. They do not see their role as the reformer of the other. Nor do they own the other. Nor do they have to be solely responsible for ... still drafting more later
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