Dr. Katherine Dettwyler 1

By Dr. Katherine Dettwyler

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NOTE: Anthropologists no longer refer to any society or group of people as being “primitive” or “savage” or “barbaric” – people who have very simple technological resources may nonetheless be quite sophisticated in terms of religion, philosophy, kinship systems, art, music, etc. Therefore, please excuse the following authors for using the terminology of their day.

Examples of societies where children nurse for many years.

First source:

Ford; Clellan Stearns 1945

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