Bertrand Laurent
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Governance Anthropologist
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Daniel O'Neil's review of Who Put the Devil Into the Pig?
5/5: Ever wondered why pigs are forbidden in some religions but celebrated in others? Or whether a plague transmitted by dogs—not violence from our ancestors—might have wiped out the Neanderthals? The...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7978486853
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Bertrand Laurent
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Pigs, and Politics
We Have a Long Colorful History Incorporating Nature Into Governance
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/pigs-and-politics?r=snges&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=split
about 1 month ago
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Bertrand Laurent
Meow Yoga
9 days ago
You are welcome and thank you for your writings as well. Nature manages to survive despite human foolishness.
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@morna6.bsky.social
Pleased to meet you. I’m the Duke of Mars. Me and my swarthy squad of ninja kangaroos are stealthily hiding in a crater waiting for billionaires from earth, who we’ll kick right back into orbit without oxygen. While waiting, I write on substack. Check me out: @bertrandlaurent
9 days ago
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@reginafabry.bsky.social
Hi Regina, I write about the anthropology of blame: how societies project guilt, disorder, and failure onto nature, animals, outsiders, and institutions — and what that history reveals about modern governance. I think you’ll like my substack @bertrandlaurent.
12 days ago
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@deborah-10.bsky.social
Hi Deborah, I write about the anthropology of blame: how societies project guilt, disorder, and failure onto nature, animals, outsiders, and institutions — and what that history reveals about modern governance. I think you’ll like my substack @bertrandlaurent.
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I write about the anthropology of blame: how societies project guilt, disorder, and failure onto nature, animals, outsiders, and institutions — and what that history reveals about modern governance. See my substack @bertrandlaurent.
13 days ago
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Pigs, and Politics
We Have a Long Colorful History Incorporating Nature Into Governance
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/pigs-and-politics?r=snges&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=split
about 1 month ago
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I’m back on substack with my series on governance anthropology! Come visit me @bertrandlaurent!
#prehistoric
#neanderthal
#farming
#survival
#society
#environment
about 1 month ago
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I’m back on substack with my series on governance anthropology! Come visit!
#prehistoric
#neanderthal
#farming
#survival
#society
#environment
about 1 month ago
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Man’s 1st government may not have begun with a king or army. It may have begun with a pig. My new Substack looks at domestication as Man’s 1st governance problem: ownership and the dangerous question, “Who decides?” Read it here: @bertrandlaurent
#Governance
#Anthropology
#History
#Civilization
about 1 month ago
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How to beat the
#gangs_in_Haiti
:
www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaur...
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Haiti's Gang Suppression Force Needs Community Partners Haitian society has long relied on neighborhood and rural networks to solve community problems. The extended-family “lakou” system was… | B...
Haiti's Gang Suppression Force Needs Community Partners Haitian society has long relied on neighborhood and rural networks to solve community problems. The extended-family “lakou” system was develope...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaurent_haitis-gang-suppression-force-needs-community-activity-7460758790838108160-qg3V?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAbE72UB2rMZO5Tjeyj9PI5qjqlFQtaz-IU&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link
about 2 months ago
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A strategic
#Haiti
issue:
www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaur...
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Haiti's Gang Suppression Force Needs Community Partners Haitian society has long relied on neighborhood and rural networks to solve community problems. The extended-family “lakou” system was… | B...
Haiti's Gang Suppression Force Needs Community Partners Haitian society has long relied on neighborhood and rural networks to solve community problems. The extended-family “lakou” system was develope...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaurent_haitis-gang-suppression-force-needs-community-activity-7460758790838108160-qg3V?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAbE72UB2rMZO5Tjeyj9PI5qjqlFQtaz-IU&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link
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Haiti's Gang Suppression Force Needs Community Partners Haitian society has long relied on neighborhood and rural networks to solve community problems. The extended-family “lakou” system was… | B...
Haiti's Gang Suppression Force Needs Community Partners Haitian society has long relied on neighborhood and rural networks to solve community problems. The extended-family “lakou” system was develope...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaurent_haitis-gang-suppression-force-needs-community-activity-7460758790838108160-qg3V?utm_source=share
about 2 months ago
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#Haiti’s
Gang Suppression Force needs community partners.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaur...
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Haiti's Gang Suppression Force Needs Community Partners Haitian society has long relied on neighborhood and rural networks to solve community problems. The extended-family “lakou” system was… | B...
Haiti's Gang Suppression Force Needs Community Partners Haitian society has long relied on neighborhood and rural networks to solve community problems. The extended-family “lakou” system was develope...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaurent_haitis-gang-suppression-force-needs-community-activity-7460758790838108160-qg3V?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAbE72UB2rMZO5Tjeyj9PI5qjqlFQtaz-IU&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link
about 2 months ago
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@niceamerican2.bsky.social
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Announcing My New Book
Who Put the Devil Into The Pig? (How Society Absolved Itself From Blame For Almost Everything)
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/announcing-a-new-book?r=snges&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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@colleenhenley.bsky.social
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Announcing My New Book
Who Put the Devil Into The Pig? (How Society Absolved Itself From Blame For Almost Everything)
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/announcing-a-new-book?r=snges&utm_medium=ios
3 months ago
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This kept hundreds of kids out of gangs.
www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaur...
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After a major hurricane in Haiti’s Grand Anse Department devastated homes and farms, my non-profit organization, The Caribbean Institute, distributed fruit trees to women farmers in all 13 municipal… ...
After a major hurricane in Haiti’s Grand Anse Department devastated homes and farms, my non-profit organization, The Caribbean Institute, distributed fruit trees to women farmers in all 13 municipal d...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaurent_after-a-major-hurricane-in-haitis-grand-activity-7431761105468944386-uSLH?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAbE72UB2rMZO5Tjeyj9PI5qjqlFQtaz-IU&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link
4 months ago
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After a major hurricane in Haiti’s Grand Anse Department devastated homes and farms, my non-profit organization, The Caribbean Institute, distributed fruit trees to women farmers in all 13 municipal… ...
After a major hurricane in Haiti’s Grand Anse Department devastated homes and farms, my non-profit organization, The Caribbean Institute, distributed fruit trees to women farmers in all 13 municipal d...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bhlaurent_after-a-major-hurricane-in-haitis-grand-activity-7431761105468944386-uSLH?utm_medium=ios_app
4 months ago
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The Differences Between the Jewish and Muslim Pig Taboos
Superficial Similarities Can Be Misleading
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/the-differences-between-the-jewish?r=snges&utm_medium=ios
4 months ago
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@lifewithpigs.bsky.social
Ever wonder why the Chinese symbol for “house” is the symbol for “pig” with the symbol for “roof” over it? See
bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/pigs-and-p...
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Pigs, and Politics
We Have a Long Colorful History Incorporating Nature Into Governance
https://bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/pigs-and-politics
5 months ago
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@logosfan215.bsky.social
I have been looking for a logo for my book since i started writing it. It’s difficult because the title is a play on words, an allegory. How would you suggest I approach such a challenge?
5 months ago
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Of Pigs and Politics.
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Pigs, and Politics
We Have a Long Colorful History Incorporating Nature Into Governance
https://bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/pigs-and-politics
5 months ago
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Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
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Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/climate/endangerment-finding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
5 months ago
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Bertrand Laurent
@literarypearls.bsky.social
#Who_Put_the_Devil_Into_the_Pig
? defines the
#Anthropocene
as not just a geological bloc of time but as a
#tipping_point
in our social consciousness and in our coexistence with nature. By
#Anthropologist
#Bertrand_Laurent
, available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
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A New Model Links Governance to Neanderthal Decline.
The Model of Neanderthal Absorption
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/a-new-model-links-governance-to-neanderthal?r=snges&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
5 months ago
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Paleo anthropology
bsky.app/profile/bwak...
add a skeleton here at some point
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@neanderthalnews.bsky.social New model links governance to
#Neanderthal_disappearance
in Substack and Research Gate
5 months ago
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Daniel O'Neil's review of Who Put the Devil Into the Pig?
5/5: Ever wondered why pigs are forbidden in some religions but celebrated in others? Or whether a plague transmitted by dogs—not violence from our ancestors—might have wiped out the Neanderthals? The...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7978486853
6 months ago
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reposted by
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A new model links Governance to Neanderthal decline.
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A New Model Links Governance to Neanderthal Decline.
The Model of Neanderthal Absorption
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/a-new-model-links-governance-to-neanderthal?r=snges&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=poster
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Daniel O'Neil's review of Who Put the Devil Into the Pig?
5/5: Ever wondered why pigs are forbidden in some religions but celebrated in others? Or whether a plague transmitted by dogs—not violence from our ancestors—might have wiped out the Neanderthals? The...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7978486853
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A new model links Governance to Neanderthal decline.
open.substack.com/pub/bertrand...
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A New Model Links Governance to Neanderthal Decline.
The Model of Neanderthal Absorption
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/a-new-model-links-governance-to-neanderthal?r=snges&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=poster
6 months ago
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A new model links Governance to Neanderthal decline. See
bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/a-new-mode...
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A New Model Links Governance to Neanderthal Decline.
The Model of Neanderthal Absorption
https://bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/a-new-model-links-governance-to-neanderthal
6 months ago
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Books. See this great
#Goodreads
review:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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Who Put the Devil Into the Pig? : How Human Society Abs…
Who Put the Devil in the Pig? (How Society Absolved Its…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242499646
8 months ago
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The lack of concern shown by many political and business leaders for the planet is appalling and frightening. The ability of
#autocrats
and
#oligarchs
to influence so many ill-informed and economically desperate people indicates that education and good governance are urgently needed.
9 months ago
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@literarypearls.bsky.social
#Who_Put_the_Devil_Into_the_Pig
? defines the
#Anthropocene
as not just a geological bloc of time but as a
#tipping_point
in our social consciousness and in our coexistence with nature. By
#Anthropologist
#Bertrand_Laurent
, available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
9 months ago
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#booktok
#Who_Put_the_Devil_Into_the_Pig
? defines the
#Anthropocene
as not just a
#geological
bloc of time but as a
#tipping_point
in social consciousness and in our coexistence with nature. The author is Anthropologist
#Bertrand_Laurent
. Available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon (ebook and paperback)
9 months ago
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#booktok
If you enjoyed
#Collapse
by Jared Diamond you’ll be entertained & fascinated by
#Who_Put_the_Devil_Into_the_Pig
?, a big-picture environmental history of social evolution by Anthropologist Bertrand Laurent. (Ebook & paperback available at
#Barnes
& Noble and
#Amazon
.)
9 months ago
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#Derek_Thompson
in
#The_Argument
, wrote “I am much more concerned about the decline of thinking people than I am about the rise of thinking machines.”:
9 months ago
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I followed some pigs into a rabbit hole and emerged years later … with an incredibly interesting book!
open.substack.com/pub/bertrand...
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The Anthropology of Blame
An Inquiry into Social Resilience in Five Steps
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/the-anthropology-of-blame?r=snges&utm_medium=ios
9 months ago
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#society#evolution#ethics
#Who_Put_the_Devil_Into_the_Pig
? defines the Anthropocene as not just a geological bloc of time but as a turning point in human social consciousness about our coexistence with nature. The book is by Anthropologist Bertrand Laurent, available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
9 months ago
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#booksky
If you enjoyed
#Why_Nations_Fail
and
#The_Narrow_Corridor
you will be fascinated by
#Who_Put_the_Devil_Into_the_Pig
?, a big-picture environmental history of human social evolution by Anthropologist
#Bertrand_Laurent
, available at
#Barnes
& Noble and
#Amazon
(ebook and paperback).
9 months ago
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#space#culture
open.substack.com/pub/bertrand...
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Old Man Borugo and the Green Comet
Did Comet Nishimura Sew Together Two Major Governance Events?
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/old-man-borugo-and-the-green-comet?r=snges&utm_medium=ios
9 months ago
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@realmoralitylab.bsky.social
Moral behavior is often defined by “taboos”, which are used to define social or behavioral boundaries. See
#Who_Put_The_Devil_Into_the_Pig
” a book by Anthropologist Bertrand Laurent about how societies have evolved. Find it on Barnes & Noble online.
10 months ago
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@tabooscience.bsky.social
Taboos are used to define social or behavioral boundaries. See
#Who_Put_The_Devil_Into_the_Pig
” a book by Anthropologist Bertrand Laurent about how societies have evolved. Find it on Barnes & Noble online.
10 months ago
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#anthropology#governance#sociology#ethics
bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/the-anthro...
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The Anthropology of Blame
An Inquiry into Social Resilience in Five Steps
https://bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/the-anthropology-of-blame
10 months ago
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Blame isn’t just personal. It’s political and structural. See:
bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/the-anthro...
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The Anthropology of Blame
An Inquiry into Social Resilience in Five Steps
https://bertrandlaurent.substack.com/p/the-anthropology-of-blame
10 months ago
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I just posted my latest Substack article, entitled "The Anthropology of Blame". I hope you find it interesting!
10 months ago
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The Anthropology of Blame
An Inquiry into Social Resilience in Five Steps
https://open.substack.com/pub/bertrandlaurent/p/the-anthropology-of-blame
10 months ago
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@anthropologia.bsky.social
You’d probably find the book “Who Put the Devil Into the Pig” quite interesting. You can find a write-up online by googling that title. (It is a non-fiction environmental history about agriculture, society and governance.
11 months ago
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@bhimabish.bsky.social
great posts! You’d probably find the book “Who Put the Devil Into the Pig” quite interesting. You can find a write-up online by googling that title. (It is a non-fiction environmental history about agriculture, society and governance.
11 months ago
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