Kuru to be a really good example of how the unspoken colonial assumption is bullshit

i mean it absolutely is bullshit, specific circumstances are always just annoyingly complicated. developments under a colonial system are real, and though inseparable from those pressures, it doesn’t make the result ungenuine or something. i’ll decry the missionaries up and down all day, but they create earnest believers, a people won’t just jump back to the old ways after being coerced to abandon them.

the foremost struggles for indigenous peoples are sovereignty and development

100%, cannibalism discussion is just about overturning the excuses the europeans made for colonizing