词汇 | the hadza |
词源 | the Hadza; Piraha. There are abundant lists of people who have accumulated great fortunes, but what of their opposites, people often called “primitives” who don’t want much of any- thing? Linguist Peter Ladefoged (1925–2006) did find at least a few of them in his travels to catalog the world’s 6,000 languages. “The Piraha,” he wrote, “live with little thought for the morrow; [and] the Hadza have fewer possessions than anyone I know.” |
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