Civilization and the Lies We Love
Channel: vlogbrothers
Date: 2020-10-15

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In which John discusses broken femurs, Margaret Mead, civilization, and the human capacity for sacrifice. SOURCES:

This whole video is a revision of the anthropocene reviewed episode on civilization: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed/episodes/anthropocene-reviewed-mortification-civilization

This post from the bioarchaeologist Stacy Hackner helped me think differently about the Margaret Mead (non-)quote and the incidence of healed femurs in humans and non-human animals. https://stacyhackner.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/that-margaret-mead-quote/#:~:text=Years%20ago%2C%20anthropologist%20Margaret%20Mead,of%20civilization%20in%20a%20culture.&text=Mead%20said%20that%20the%20first,been%20broken%20and%20then%20healed.

This Stack Exchange thread tracked down the seemingly original (and almost certainly invented) source of the Margaret Mead quote: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/47543/did-margaret-mead-say-that-a-healed-femur-is-the-earliest-sign-of-civilization

Actual Margaret Mead on civilization and much else can be read here: https://berghahnbooks.com/downloads/chapters/MeadStudying_Ch02.pdf



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