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1School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA and Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USAwiessner@soft-link.com; https://shesc.asu.edu/people/pauline-wiessner.
Abstract:
If recent exploratory traditions tap into evolved psychological dispositions to explore, wouldn't humans be expected to have drawn on such dispositions long before the written word? Trickster oral traditions fill this role in all levels of society, affluence, and on all continents, inverting the boundaries of social worlds and those between humans and animals, fostering cultural innovation.
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