I was recently talking with a friend about this. This idea is definitely one of those that should be revisited, and re-thought. Like the idea of whole tribes of “warrior women”, closed off to males, just because some European explorer saw women from a “normal” tribe doing things that challenged their idea of what the social role of a “woman” was from their eurocentric perspective.

I wonder how much of written history was distorted using that bias. Gananath Obeyesekere’s “The apotheosis of captain Cook” was great for me to start questioning and shifting my perspective away from hardline colonial eurocentrism in the interpretation of history.

I missed the “and” in the title at first and was very confused

Pretty terrible article. Good discussion of how unscientific it is in linked conversations