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thanks for pulling all this info into one place! I chuckled to myself reading the bit on story telling/tellers in the Agta communities.

This line is what felt humorous to me: “are largely correlational and further studies are required to conclusively demonstrate that storytelling performs a causal role in facilitating cooperative behavior.”

I appreciate their thoroughness but.....

Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, etc. Are these not blatant & already well documented examples of how story telling is used to organize cooperative behavior at massive scales?

The question that comes to me with this is how do these intact traditional cultures (read as hunter/gatherer) use storytelling differently than the the giant global players? And what can we learn from their methodology that can aid us in organizing ourselves in more sustainable ways?

Thanks for the laugh & the insightful pieces woven together here!

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