@jeremycherfas Thanks for the references. Have you read them all? General thoughts?

I've only tangentially heard about The Starship and the Canoe after the elder Dyson passed away pre-pandemic. I'll have to put the other two into into my list, though my intention is to read some material by indigenous peoples first before delving into more of the Western anthropological material. I do have some related material from the early 1900's, but I'm presently working on a thesis about how horrifically wrong Western anthropology has misinterpreted the oral nature of many Indigenous cultures.