Radical Anthropology<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@WorldImagining" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>WorldImagining</span></a></span> <br>A very nice blog on hunter-gatherers and work from <a href="https://c.im/tags/VivekVenkataraman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VivekVenkataraman</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/what-hunter-gatherers-demonstrate-about-work-and-satisfaction" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/what-hunter-gat</span><span class="invisible">herers-demonstrate-about-work-and-satisfaction</span></a></p><p>James Suzman's book Work: a deep history <br><a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Work.html?id=fuuNEAAAQBAJ&amp;source=kp_book_description&amp;redir_esc=y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books.google.co.uk/books/about</span><span class="invisible">/Work.html?id=fuuNEAAAQBAJ&amp;source=kp_book_description&amp;redir_esc=y</span></a><br>Also 'Affluence without abundance'</p><p>Article Kraft et al on human energy intake and efficiency <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abf0130" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc</span><span class="invisible">e.abf0130</span></a><br>"Nevertheless, hunter-gatherers acquire so much energy from the environment that they can afford to burn a lot in the process, leaving more than enough to fuel the collective brain of the group.<br>"Paradoxically, it is hard work that explains hunter-gatherer laziness. In humans, a species hard-wired for work, laziness is not a luxury, it’s a necessity: we must relax and save energy when we can."</p><p>Interesting Bhui et al 2019 shows men's work hours increase with increase of commercial labour but not women's (but that's just men catching up w women's work hours) <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1906196116" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.</span><span class="invisible">1906196116</span></a></p><p>And Dyble et al 2019, one of the best studies showing hunter-gatherer leisure time reduces with onset of agriculture, among the Agta <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0614-6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41562-019</span><span class="invisible">-0614-6</span></a></p>