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#887 Carol Ember: Tight and Loose Cultures, Sexuality, Gender Differences, and Cultural Databases

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Cultural Tightness and Disaster Response

This chapter examines the relationship between cultural tightness and how societies respond to disasters. It discusses the findings that countries with a higher history of natural disasters tend to have more cultural tightness. However, it also explores the discrepancy between this finding and the anthropological record, prompting further exploration of different types of disasters and their characteristics.

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