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Review of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber & Wengrow

Review of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber & Wengrow

An exploration of human possibility – from the archaeological evidence

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Mar 31, 2023
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Traditionally, scholars of “human nature” have focused on 2 opposing poles. Rousseau portrayed hunter-gatherers as existing in a state of childlike innocence, intellectually inferior but peaceful and without hierarchy. In his narrative, the agricultural revolution ruined this egalitarian paradise, introducing social class, inequality, and debilitating n…

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