Patriarchy in hunter-gatherer societies.

Authors

William Buckner, Luke Glowacki

Published in

The Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 49. Pages e423. Oct 02, 2026. Epub Oct 02, 2026.

Abstract

Stibbard-Hawkes and von Rueden provide a valuable account of inequality across nominally egalitarian societies, but their attempt to salvage the egalitarian concept is less convincing. The processes they identify as maintaing relative equality are oriented around hunter-gatherer socioecology, while a different selection could categorize almost any human society as "egalitarian" in some domain. Gender-based coercion poses a strong challenge to the framework's emphasis on individual autonomy.

PMID:
42825711
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 02 Oct 2026.

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