Michael Reid

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Wari people of the Amazon has a set of noun classifiers that distinguish edible from inedible objects, and that the edible class includes anyone who is not a member of the tribe. This prompted the psychologist Judith Rich Harris to observe: In the Wari dictionary Food’s defined as “Not a Wari.” Their dinners are a lot of fun For all but the un-Wari one.
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