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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
by Sebastian Junger
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Very quick read with lots of super interesting insights. Readers might enjoy Rutger Bregman's Humankind: A Hopeful History for some similar themes.
I had a bit of an issue with the author's gendering of male and female emotions and attributing them to sex. There are of course some traits and behaviors humans experience that are generally biologically related to sex, but he associates many traits to men and women, later saying that if there are no men or women present in a situation then the role can swap. He specifically says at one point that these traits or behaviors are more related to gender than sex, but that makes me wonder why gender them then? If the person expressing them can alternate depending on the context, it follows (in my mind) that they are societally gendered rather than biologically assigned.
There was nothing ill intentioned about this, though, and I was able to look past it and still take away lessons from it.
The author is very fair and seems well researched across the board. I learned a lot about Native Americans (he calls them American Indians and explains why at the top of the book), and a lot about the psychological impacts of war and returning to society. The book is accessible and insightful. Definitely recommend.
I had a bit of an issue with the author's gendering of male and female emotions and attributing them to sex. There are of course some traits and behaviors humans experience that are generally biologically related to sex, but he associates many traits to men and women, later saying that if there are no men or women present in a situation then the role can swap. He specifically says at one point that these traits or behaviors are more related to gender than sex, but that makes me wonder why gender them then? If the person expressing them can alternate depending on the context, it follows (in my mind) that they are societally gendered rather than biologically assigned.
There was nothing ill intentioned about this, though, and I was able to look past it and still take away lessons from it.
The author is very fair and seems well researched across the board. I learned a lot about Native Americans (he calls them American Indians and explains why at the top of the book), and a lot about the psychological impacts of war and returning to society. The book is accessible and insightful. Definitely recommend.