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- HISTORICAL-CULTURAL Datalink Entry:
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- ANTARCTICA, NAMES (INDIVIDUAL) Re:
- Devore, Peter via Edmod/ Ref.436745@2
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- Ants only carried one name; family
- designations were coded and considered
- private and mostly irrelevant for
- ordinary discourse. Only intimates would
- be interested in matters of blood
- relationships, and it was impolite to
- ask. Such information would be
- volunteered. This explains why we know
- so little about Thatcher. It may also
- explain why the Ants chose to have such
- an abrupt system of naming one another.
- Reports clearly show that their culture
- is resistent to the kind of monitoring
- and evaluation technology common in the
- Intercorp domain.
-