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The Dawn of Everything

The Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity
HistoryPhilosophy
Pages
704
Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

Forget what you think you know about human history. Graeber and Wengrow challenge the idea that our ancestors were either primitive savages or simpletons. They argue that our current understanding of social evolution, from farming to states, is based on flawed eighteenth-century ideas. This book uses new archaeological and anthropological research to show a much richer and more complex past, opening up new ways to think about our present and future.

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David Graeber

David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author known for his books Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015) and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2018). He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. As an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale from 1998–2007 he specialised in theories of value and social theory. The university's deci...

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