Urapmin, a remote community in the mountains of Papua New Guinea, is not connected to any other place by road, and there is no electricity in any of its seven villages. The people there, also called Urapmin, have no regular way of earning cash. They build their houses out of materials they gather from the rainforest that surrounds them, and they garden and hunt for their food. In the early 1990s, I spent two years living and doing ethnographic fieldwork in Urapmin. It s the kind of place most people would only encounter in the pages of National Geographic, and it s hard to imagine a society more different from the modern United States. Nonetheless, I ve found myself thinking a lot about Urapmin since the U.S. presidential election.
via www.sapiens.org
Like most anthropology, this is a stretch, but it's still interesting.