| There is so far no option to reply to your reply further down the thread so I will attempt to do that here with apologies for not keeping it in sequence. Maybe this is nested too deeply. >Has there has ever been a society without rape and other violence? Sure, maybe North Sentinelese are an exception. I am reading a book now that was linked in a comment that has since been deleted. It is quite interesting and may have answers to your questions since it covers much of the history of the region and its inhabitants and describes their customs as observed by people who encountered them and noted what they saw. So far, several chapters in I have found no accounts of rape though I haven't read the chapters in order and it is possible that this will be covered in chapters that I have not read. >Certainly, some tendency to violence is evident. There's plenty of violence but the events seem to be nuanced by the context in which the contact occurs with some contacts leading to immediate violence, others to ambush violence, and still others leading to friendly gatherings with celebrations and gift exchanges. All depending on the context of the contact and the composition of the groups if there had been a history of contact between them. One thing that I did run across was a mention that children, male and female, are celebrated equally with no evidence of child neglect or abuse or infanticide due to the baby's sex. A reason given for this is the low birth rate making every child important to the survival of the group. The low birth rate may be an infertility issue, it may be related to marriage customs where an older man marries a younger woman but not vice versa, or it may be an adaptation to the group's knowledge that there are limited resources on an island and so it makes sense to control the number of inhabitants so resources are not depleted. Anyway, the book is out on the wayback machine and if you have an interest in anthropology, pre-history, etc it feels like it lays out all the things we know about the region and its inhabitants, where they came from, etc and is interesting reading with National Geographic style photos (all black and white) of some of the islands and the peoples. [0] Enjoy! [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070406235017/http://www.andama... |