Joseph Henrich
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 May
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It might be your uncle is actually in charge of the land, your father's brother.
And so you can't sell it.
You can't move it around.
And you're also tied to it.
It's where your ancestors are buried.
And so there's this big importance of land.
So the church allows people to give land to the church.
The church becomes the largest landowner in Europe because you can do it by testament.
So those are just some of the examples of the ways it transforms the family structure, and eventually you get these monogamous nuclear families, which are basically unheard of around the world, at least if you look at the anthropological record.
And you can really see this when you can compare.
Individuals can move to European cities as individuals or nuclear families.
In China, when you move to the city, you maintain contacts with the folks back home in the village, and people flow back and forth, and you get these –
Little enclaves of different clans and stuff in the cities and the connections.
And this is really important because you're ancestors and there's rituals that have to be done back in the home community.
But Christianity does away with all those ancestor rituals.
Well, there are certainly some interesting things going on in Greece and Rome.
But I don't think there's good evidence that you had the kinds of monogamous nuclear families that you would find later.
I mean even European law is built around patrilineage.
So if your father is still alive, you are not a full citizen.
You are under – you're in the patra house.
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