Though not Raymond Firth, this thinker examined "virtual suicide" as a method of population control on Tikopia in one book. This thinker considered factors like "diet" and "tendency to panic" in applying the "Anna Karenina principle" to explain the lack of usable domesticated animals in a book that opens by recalling a conversation this thinker had
Though not Raymond Firth, this thinker examined "virtual suicide" as a method of population control on Tikopia in one book. This thinker considered factors like "diet" and "tendency to panic" in applying the "Anna Karenina principle" to explain the lack of usable domesticated animals in a book that opens by recalling a conversation this thinker had while in New Guinea about (*) "cargo." In another book, this thinker developed a framework with five factors including the hostility of neighbors and climate change to examine the downfall of societies on Pitcairn Island and Easter Island. This man posited that Eurasian societies gained an advantage over other societies both through geographic location and mastery of the three title phenomena in one book. For 10 points, name this author of Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Though not Raymond Firth, this thinker examined "virtual suicide" as a method of population control on Tikopia in one book.