Implicit theories	Foraging Societies
Community	Those people are part of my moral community with whom I share common access to resources, language and ties of marriage and descent
System	The wider natural world is made one moral community of humans divided into two – those I am descended from and those I can marry. All groups acquire their material needs from a wondrously varied and continuously bountiful ecosystem. Original affluent society. “Wide” realized econiche
Authority	Authority is derived by descent and mediated through the recollection of elders. Disputes settled by council of elders acting to (re-)establish limits on individual actions appropriate to the needs of group.
Change	Change is constant, driven by rhythmic and seasonal change – estuaries/tides, migrations, summer/winter – and longer term variations – drought years, flood years. Social structure designed to accommodate and buffer change – sharing mechanisms, fictive kinship,
Agency	Spirits linked to specific resources (animals, fruit/nut trees), sometimes places (springs, rivers, etc), or large natural phenomena (Moon, Sun) engender change.
Time	Normal experience of time is that of “life cycle.” Different things have different life-cycles, all nested within one another. One acts in reference to the time appropriate in the relevant life cycle.