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Among the !Kung (Ju/'hoansi), a successful hunter's kill is mocked rather than praised. The ethnographer Richard Lee described this as a way to curb arrogance and keep society egalitarian.
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Guugu Yimithirr speakers use four cardinal direction roots, close to north, south, east and west, for nearly all horizontal location and motion, instead of body-based terms like left and right.
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Cargo cults were Melanesian movements seeking 'cargo' through ritual. Anthropologists now mostly read them as responses to colonial inequality, and many question the term itself.
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The Kula ring is a ceremonial exchange network in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay region, in which shell necklaces and armbands circulate in opposite directions among partners on many islands.
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