Weber, Max, 224
WEIRD societies, 8–9
advantages, 455–57, 461–62
child development scholarship, 174–75
child-rearing practices, 180, 182–83, 184–85, 187, 189, 190–91, plate 39
defined, 6
environmental hazards in, 276–77, 279
friendship in, 51–52
individualism in, 91, 224
life expectancies, 231, 233
shortcomings of, 457–61
social bonds in, 51–52, 88, 91, 456–58
stranger contacts in, 1–2, 53
trade in, 61–65
See also specific countries
Welsh language, 409
Westernized lifestyle adoption
health and, 4, 31–32, 411–14, 432–33, 449–50
for safety and comfort, 280
See also diabetes; hypertension
Westernized societies. See WEIRD societies
widow strangling, 21, 216
widowhood, 233
Wiessner, Polly, 479
Wilson, David Sloan, 363–66
Wilson, Michael, 139
Witoto Indians, 214
Wollaston, A. F. R., 298
wolves, 154–55
women, 177, 233, 290, 298
as foragers, 187, 278
as information sources, 166–67, 291
treatment of old women, 215, 216
war and, 141, 146, 157–58, 163, 166–67
See also children
work and work ethic, 224, 353, 460
World Trade Center attack, 127, 128
World War I, 102, 127, 139–40, 142, 160–61, 361
World War II, 137, 165, 169–70, 361, 407
atomic bomb, 127, plate 37
food shortages, 314
mortality, 127, 128, 139–42
personal stories of, 238
related conflicts, 102, 130
Wrangham, Richard, 139, 155
writing, 3, 7, 18
Xingu Indians, 73–74, 419
Yahi Indians, 398
Ishi, 398, 456, plate 29
Yakut people, 215
Yamana language, 397
Yanomamo Indians, 16, 42, 203, 280, 297–98, plate 12
food availability, 301, 303
map, 27 fig.
salt intake and blood pressure, 416, 418–19
trade, 65, 67, 73, 74, 75
warfare, 132, 137, 158, 160, 163, 165, 291
Yap Islanders, 62
Yazzie, Robert, 103
Yemenite Jews, 433, 438 table, 449
Yolngu people, 26 fig., 42, 44, 68 table
Yora Indians, 188
youth, American cult of, 225–26
Yupik Inuit, 152
Yupik languages, 397, 398
Zimmet, Paul, 443
Zulu people, 137, 148, 201
Zweig, Stefan, 239
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