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He rejects the prejudice that non-technological peoples are stupid, arguing that their religious imagination is sophisticated, complex, and vivid.
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Sophistication
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"This is the realm of the He Spirit, a world of deified ancestors where rocks and rivers are alive. Plants and animals are human..."
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"...lot of thought put into what they wear. Okay? So, again, sophistication. Their clothing, the way they dress, suggests that this is a very..."
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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