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showing that hunter-gatherers actually dominate their leaders. They move in that
direction-but only to the extent of causing leaders to desist from their own
projects of domination. (Boehm delightfully enumerates the methods of group
members, which prominently include ridicule.) But the next day they will still tend
to listen to the leader and follow his suggestions as usual: neither dominated nor
dominating, but clearly led. For me, this is counterdominance rather than
dominance reversal.
My second difference is the detail of the evolutionary trajectory Boehm
envisages. Throughout the book, he stresses the importance of the moral
community in controlling leaders. At times this is treated almost as an independent
causal deus ex machina. Such factors often materialize in cultural and social
anthropology, and Boehm is a good critic of them in other contexts. But for Boehm,
first the ability to create munity evolved for other reasons, and then it
turned universally to resist domination by leaders. This seems implausible. More
likely, I think, is that food sharing, which is well treated as the economically
efficient solution for hullter-ga2theUrers, coulu ollly IL, susLItaiUd whenkl1 aI.[LttJemt to
dominate the group were effectively resisted. So those groups did better which
posed of individuals whose inherited psychology supported sharing and
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