How Do You Explain This?

Acording to the ethnological/anthropological literature, our archaic ancestors would have nearly all been diagnosed with O.D.D. That’s “Oppositional Defiant Disorder.” That is, our distant relatives had serious “problems with authority” — in other words, they had problems with being told what to do.

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Briggs (1970:55-58) tells us in detail how religious services were conducted in iglus [igloos] and how Inuttiag (in the role of religious coordinator) tried at certain points to get h...