It is clear that the 'story' was born by a bonfire
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Human beings began to cook and eat food because they were able to control 'fire' 400,000 years ago. Hunting ethnic studies have revealed that the effects of fire are not limited to these changes in eating habits, but that communication in the light of flames also affected the cultural formation of human ancestors. ..
Embers of society: Firelight talk among the Ju /'hoansi Bushmen
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/39/14027
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According to a study on the Juhoan tribe in Botswana, Namibia, the light of the bonfire at night has the effect of inspiring people's imagination, and the bonfire extends the time of activity at night and the time to live a self-sufficient life. I found it easier to tell the story because I had more time to work in other social areas.
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Polly Wiessner, an anthropologist at the University of Utah, known for his work on the 'Bushman ' of the hunting people Juhoan, wrote down 174 days of conversations and discourses that the Juhoan people had at night in the late 1970s. Since then, Wiessner has visited ethnic villages several times until 2013 to translate the content of the conversations he wrote down.
According to a research report published by Wiessner in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Sciences , conversations between Japan and China are focused on financial issues, land rights, and complaints to others in the Juhoan community, but the light of the flames. It is said that 81% of the content spoken under the story was occupied by the story. The story told in the light of fire also has the effect of giving the audience the same emotional wavelength as the narrator.
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From this, Wiessner believes that in the community of human ancestry as well, flames have expanded people's minds and contributed to the fulfillment of social relationships, causing spiritual theory through imagination and the community. It is said that it played an important role in the formation of cooperation and relationships of trust.
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