#655 Anne Pisor: Studying Subsistence Societies, Long-Distance Relationships, and Climate Change

RECORDED ON MAY 3rd 2022.
Dr. Anne Pisor is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Her research interests include long-distance relationships and resource management, long-distance relationships and the downsides of climate change, and the evolution of human sociality.

In this episode, we talk about topics in evolutionary anthropology, including: long-distance relationships, and how they’re built; inter-group tolerance; studying human sociality in preliterate societies, and the assumptions we have about them; parochial altruism; how people valuate out-group strangers; Dr. Pisor’s fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon and Tanzania; and climate change, how it affects human societies, how they adapt to it, and what industrialized societies can learn from them.

Time Links:
00:00 Intro
00:34 Long-distance relationships, and how they’re built
10:02 Long-distance relationships in other primates
16:22 Inter-group tolerance
21:31 How to study sociality in ancient preliterate societies, and the assumptions we make about them
31:59 Parochial altruism
37:15 How people valuate out-group strangers
45:53 Dr. Pisor’s fieldwork in the Bolivian Amazon and Tanzania
59:00 Climate change – how it affects human societies, and how they adapt to it
1:17:21 Follow Dr. Pisor’s work!

Follow Dr. Pisor’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/35JKL6s
Website: https://bit.ly/3BuYXxD
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/2SGQt6z
Twitter handle: @AnnePisor