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Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2012 05:45:16AM 0 points [-]

If nothing else, a reputations as a "rapist" is not at all the same thing in a society where women aren't considered to be people, but property.

That does not describe forager societies at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter-gatherer#Common_characteristics

Comment author: drethelin 08 September 2012 05:58:43AM *  1 point [-]
Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2012 02:00:33PM 2 points [-]

The Yanomamo are horticulturalists. They grow bananas, manioc and other crops available in the wild by means of slash-and-burn and managed planting. They are not an example of a forager (aka hunter-gatherer) society.

Comment author: waveman 09 September 2012 06:15:34AM 2 points [-]

They are were (using past tense because of the changes they have undergone) a hybrid culture. They did agriculture but the crops were low-quality and they also relied heavily on hunting and also on gathering. For a man to prove himself a worthy husband for a woman, he had to do "bride service" which basically amounted to providing meat from hunting to the bride's family for a year or two.