PBS Covers the Human Generosity Project

 

Arizona PBS recently aired an episode about the Human Generosity Project. In this episode, field site supervisors Tom Conte, Cathryn Townsend, and Helen Wasielewski, as well as directors Athena Aktipis and Lee Cronk, discuss how different societies deal with unpredictable environments. The episode delves into how societies ranging from Mongolian herders to ranchers in the American Southwest deal with cyclones, raids by neighboring villagers, brutal winter conditions, and other unpredictable adversities. Although these societies are diverse in their cultural practices and the types of difficulties that they have to overcome, they are all characterized by the formation of relationships in which help is given on the basis of need.

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