FIGURE 1. Camp plans of the !Kung, stone age(left) and iron age (right). (From Yellen, p. 104.)
FIGURE 2. Arms race, one nation. (From Zeeman, p. 330)
FIGURE 3. Goods catastrophe for one tribe.
FIGURE 4. Synergy catastrophe for one tribe.
FIGURE 5. Control space of the double cusp model: the Kushelman response diagram.

Contents:

Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The transformation of the !Kung

2.1 Background
2.2 Before 1970
2.3 After 1975

3. A microdynamic model

3.1 Microdynamic bifurcations
3.2 Synergy bifurcations

4. Macrodynamic models for a synergy catastrophe

4.1 Single-cusp models
4.2 A double-cusp model

5. Conclusion
6. Bibliography

While the emergence of a planetary society unrolls, a backlash of neonationalism is raising global alarm. Here we combine earlier works on international synergy and social fractals into a model for the new world disorder, and apply it to the transformation of the !Kung as an example.