Incident involving the Jarawa

Discussion of Julian Jaynes's second hypothesis - the bicameral mind, specifically the subtopic of the mentality of preliterate societies, theories of primitive religion, and vestiges of bicameral mind in preliterate societies.
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Incident involving the Jarawa

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A group of 13 Jarawa broke into a settler's house for stealing a saree to make a swing

http://andamanchronicle.com/content/view/1610/27/

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Interesting! It's a shame someone with a background in Jaynesian theory is not available to study these groups.
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