We Are Multi-Tribal

Herb Bowie
6 min readAug 2, 2022
Network of connected people, with lines and circles
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I’ve been reading a lot lately about human tribes: Sebastian Junger’s excellent book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, and The Dawn of Everything, by Graeber and Wengrow, to name a couple. And all of these works make good points about our basic need to be part of a small, supportive community.

But here’s one observation that seems to me to be getting too little consideration, among all this interest in early human tribes:

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