On the efficacy of shamanism from Mike Jay's review of M. Singh's "Shamanism".

I just finished M. Singh's "Shamanism" and at the very end he notes this incredible anti-intellectual nonsense from our post-modern colleagues.

Weird and irrelevant reference padding.

Today's re-reading and noting a lovely photo of the Gunwinggu from Jon Altman's important work. They no doubt feasted for days and called in friends and relatives to join in

When very young I fancied these were their surviving kin

Montaigne in "Of Cannibals" described Brazilian native Tupinamba visitors to France in 1562 and their assessment of French civilization

Luke Glowacki just published an excellent critique on war among mobile foragers with a focus on the work of Fry and Söderberg inter alia. I have published my own reservations of their Science paper. But Luke's paper uncovered more problems. I had to change my lecture notes to include the following

PLOS desk rejected it because "We don't do commentaries".

I just received page proofs and it is not starting well.