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14 Dec 2016 Conversations with Tyler Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)
“His current book, The Secret of Our Success, will be available for sale outside afterwards. We will move in just a second to question-and-answer.”
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…And what the missionaries were actually up to. Like, were they actually trying to ban cousin marriage and all the stuff that they purported to do in their letters back to the pope. Joe, we look forward to your next book. His current book, The Secret of Our Success, will be available for sale outside afterwards. We will move in just a second to question-and-answer. We have microphones on each side. But before we do that, let’s give Joe a big round of applause. This is about cousin marriage. I’ll try to be quick. If it begins with the churches undermining cousin marriage around 600, and then European economic success only really takes off maybe a thousand years later — depending on what you think about the economic history — is it plausible that the initial effects of undermining cousin marriage may have been quite detrimental, weakening social stability? Making societies more fragmented?…
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