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‘Selfish and loveless’ society in Uganda really is not – Phys.Org

A mountain people in Uganda—branded as selfish and loveless by an anthropologist half a century ago—really is not, according to a study led by a Baylor University anthropologist.

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A mountain people in Ugandabranded as selfish and loveless by an anthropologist half a century agoreally is not, according to a study led by a Baylor University anthropologist.
The research debunks the assessment of the Ik ethnic group of hunter-gatherers set out in the book “The Mountain People,” published by Colin Turnbull in 1972.
Baylor anthropologist Cathryn Townsend, Ph.D., formerly of Rutgers University, lived with and gathered data from the Ik in 2016 to 2018. She found that Turnbull’s…

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