Former President Barack Obama admitted Thursday that "globalization" has "disrupted a lot of traditional societies." Speaking to Comedy Central host Trevor Noah on "The Daily Show," the 44th president ...

List of tables and figures -- Prologue: At the airport: -- Airport scene -- Why study traditional societies? -- States -- Types of traditional societies -- Approaches, causes, and sources -- Small ...

For most humans living today, it's hard to imagine life without written language, governments and large-scale agriculture. But on the scale of human history, all of these are recent inventions. Until ...

Classroom learning is indispensable in a modern society. But in pre-modern societies, children learn to be contributing family and community members via self-guided exploration, observation and ...

Recently, I explored what is known about child-raising in societies termed “traditional.” Their pre-modern (or indigenous) cultures are guided by ways of life very different from ours in the modern ...