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Tribe

on Homecoming and Belonging
Dec 27, 2016SEELOCHAN BEHARRY rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Tribe" is a remarkable encapsulation of what is known about us as humans. We are tribal in our instincts, actions and thinking since we also see it as necessary for our own and our group's survival. "In The Prehistories of Baseball," it is shown that these strong tribal proclivities were seen in our earlier sports - where we essentially showed our strong preference for own our own tribe (team) competing against another. Today often the distinction between what is a game/a real battle is blurred. In this work, these tribal affiliations are evident in the earlier precursor games of baseball, for example, one tribe throwing rocks at another across a divide, such as a river; or, rocks raining down from higher elevation to those below. Baseball recalls our tribal roots and desire to assemble in our old ancestral places for communal events Seelochan Beharry