das Indigenous knoledge in Aboriginal Land Recovery " by Charles D. Brown RZE 1982 Ihis paper argUes for return to primary (primitive) culture. both Australian and Anerican Aboriginals have focussed on land recovery as a way of liberating and reviving their cultures. Thus, I develop the argument for use in Aboriginal Land Recorery. Ethnology has discovered that "primitive" or primary cultures put people before things: that is, they givenimportance to ordering relations besieen peorie than to ordering things as compared with western Cirilization. Prinary cultures are stateless societies as weil. Thes hane SeATerche(ourstde of the family)ith attending orpressive apparatus for controlling subjects and objects in territorial boundaries. sy implication, primary cultures are not imperialistic on the Capitalist, nonar or other model. Furthermore, Lespite the evident rovert! in presential primary cultures, life in those cultures is affluent. That is, the poverty is evidence of imperial exploitation and In bourgeois thought and propaganda but aot of primary cultural Anomlay structure,ta ٢٢٤٠٠٤ or potential; and, primary culture does not treat land and -esources as commodities and private property. Finalis, anthropolo57 hus discarired thet and this is perhaps my most unusual claim,, primary cultures are more fit for survival stratest, in the Darwinian or evolutionary sense, than civilization, at least based on the best evidence so far, Iron all of the above, I conclude that prizary culture is siritually and raterially superior to civilization. What is the -vicence ior the pre-isses to this conclusion ? is the capitalist torm "dynamir" encugh to move Or, Is not the following true? • A fundamental and well accepted fact of anthropology 1s that hono sapiens sapiens came to be at least 34,000 years ago (e-g-Lasker 1976 p304). Of course Neanderthals are the same species, and go back much further. It is a well established fact of archaeology that no state came about before about 6,000 years ago (Kottak 1974 p 213) - Therefore, it is assumed that most of human existence time wise has been in stateless societies. Stateless societies have existed for 34, 000 years or more. Now states are on the verge of nuclear holocaust. On this evidence , which type of society is nore fit in the Darwinian sense? Stateless, primary cultural societiesare. It is this reasoning on species and state origins which may give this paper some originality. There are other truths which I think are important secrets of anthropology and liarxism which are corroborative evidence for ny audacious conclusion that primary culture is fittest. These secrets fit well with the 34,000 - 6,000 figures and so I am glad to display then here, but they have alreddy been seen as implying my conclusion. As Alfonso Ortiz says, Western science is preoccupied with time. Well these figures, 34,000 years and 6,000years are bold enough for an elementary school child to grasp. Certainly they are fundamental to any 101 testbook in ethnology and anthropology. All of the discoveries which have changed the fossil record before. are homo sapiens sapiens -nin a direction which increases the number of stateless and perhaps kincentric societées. Nobody claims that Nranderthals had states that I know of. They didn't even have developed stones ! - another third world nation). All of the discussion about different forms of state - dage creating form?