They don't even have a minted tender, their wealth is determined by axes, betel nuts, palm skirts, and palm leaves

"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."

also shells

That quote is literally completely true.

If you're shells have been in family circulation for several generations they're considered to be worth more

So their version of currency literally grows on trees?

^

it was one of rare femainists that had the head properly screwed to the rest of the body

This is exactly what i'm saying

Thus making it abundant and fucking **worthless**.

My god is that a documentary or series?

Even bigger kek, they way the show power in trobriand society?

Are yall ready for this shit?

Who got raped first?

How many human sacrifices they have to their God per day?

The way power is displayed in Trobriand society

is

how many yams you have

I can't make this shit up

Yams = Vegetable.

Yams are not food, they're a display of power and a ritual food

....

what

According to Google it's a vegetable.

in in the actual fuck

I'll show up with a truckload of yams= "weakling Bow before your master!"

So...

You can't actually

Yams... is this some amazonian tribe?

It's considered insulting to have more yams than the chieftain

> People fuck as young as 9
> Doesn't understand electricity
>"powerful and successful"
>women run it
>all deaths are caused by curses from witch doctors
>multiple versions of their wealth literally grows on trees and bushes

I'll have a gun

Also no, they're not amazonian. They live in the pacific region

*Shoots chieftain*.

"Anyone else?"

Around Papua New Guinea

maybe that's why tribes got conquered, by disrupting to their core the power structure?

The mourning process is strange as well

Whenever someone dies you're not allowed to work for months

That's... very smart.

the meere presence of BOERs caused a way of power shifts in suth africa as Boers were raising and selling cattle to the ships going and comeing from India