The Dawn of Everything :A New History of Humanity - David Graeber and David Wengrow
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Anthropology
 Archaeology
 Domination
 Hierarchy
 History
 Inequality
 Sociology
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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution - from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of “the state”, political violence, and social inequality - and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the 18th century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.
Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of “the state”? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 4.8/5
December 29th, 2021
An interesting point of view on human history.
December 29th, 2021
This book was so good, I’ve been thinking about it almost every day since I read it a month or two ago.
This book gave me an optimism about humanity that almost nothing, except the struggle of radicals, has given me. Humans are awesome and have always tried to be nice.
December 29th, 2021
“always tried to be nice”?!!! Please refer to the ideological 20th century. Quick as you can, now. Thinking solidly for several months, & then coming to that conclusion? Beam me up…
December 29th, 2021
I recently got interested in refreshing my decade-old knowledge of human evolutionary history and this might be something I need to listen to.
Many thanks for sharing this book. You would get many blessing from me when I am listening to this under the wintry sun.
December 29th, 2021
Be careful of “big histories”; they tend to misquote and fabricate for the sake of simplistic narrative (this and graeber’s other works are not an exception).
December 29th, 2021
Thank you :-)
December 29th, 2021
Speaking of ‘Big History’ subject, I would recommend this TTC/TGC course (probably the only such course available, last time I checked anyway):
TTC Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity by Prof. David Christian
https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/ttc-big-history-the-big-bang-life-on-earth-and-the-rise-of-humanity-david-christian
December 29th, 2021
Contents:
01 What Is Big History?
02 Moving across Multiple Scales
03 Simplicity and Complexity
04 Evidence and the Nature of Science
05 Threshold 1—Origins of Big Bang Cosmology
06 How Did Everything Begin?
07 Threshold 2—The First Stars and Galaxies
08 Threshold 3—Making Chemical Elements
09 Threshold 4—The Earth and the Solar System
10 The Early Earth—A Short History
11 Plate Tectonics and the Earth’s Geography
12 Threshold 5—Life
13 Darwin and Natural Selection
14 The Evidence for Natural Selection
15 The Origins of Life
16 Life on Earth—Single-celled Organisms
17 Life on Earth—Multi-celled Organisms
18 Hominines
19 Evidence on Hominine Evolution
20 Threshold 6—What Makes Humans Different?
21 Homo sapiens—The First Humans
22 Paleolithic Lifeways
23 Change in the Paleolithic Era
24 Threshold 7—Agriculture
25 The Origins of Agriculture
26 The First Agrarian Societies
27 Power and Its Origins
28 Early Power Structures
29 From Villages to Cities
30 Sumer—The First Agrarian Civilization
31 Agrarian Civilizations in Other Regions
32 The World That Agrarian Civilizations Made
33 Long Trends—Expansion and State Power
34 Long Trends—Rates of Innovation
35 Long Trends—Disease and Malthusian Cycles
36 Comparing the World Zones
37 The Americas in the Later Agrarian Era
38 Threshold 8—The Modern Revolution
39 The Medieval Malthusian Cycle, 500–1350
40 The Early Modern Cycle, 1350–1700
41 Breakthrough—The Industrial Revolution
42 Spread of the Industrial Revolution to 1900
43 The 20th Century
44 The World That the Modern Revolution Made
45 Human History and the Biosphere
46 The Next 100 Years
47 The Next Millennium and the Remote Future
48 Big History—Humans in the Cosmos
December 29th, 2021
Many thanks. Sounds interesting.
January 1st, 2022
A zillion thanks
January 15th, 2022
Thanks! But why wasn’t my download chapterized?
January 25th, 2022
Great share, DA. Really appreciate it!
@ihaveatrex - This version is just a straight-up mp3 file. There are various programs that can split it up into chapters out there, or you can just use an audiobook/music player that will remember your place.
June 25th, 2022
Thank you. Outstanding book, not necessarily for its argument (which is intriguing) but rather for how well this book makes be aware of my assumptions and raises questions worth asking.
January 8th, 2023
@misterquigley
I guess you know where they chapter breaks are by going into a mystic trance induced by eating magic mushrooms?
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