“The Dawn of Everything” is a lively, and often very funny, anarchist project that aspires to enlarge our political imagination by revitalizing the possibilities of the distant past. Superficially, it resembles other exhaustive, synoptic histories—it’s encyclopedic in scope, with sections introduced by comically baroque intertitles—but it disavows the intellectual trappings of a knowable arc, a linear structure, and internal necessity.
In the past three decades, however, new archeological methods have disturbed many of these long-standing assumptions. The “shrines” were, Graeber and Wengrow tell us, just regular houses; the female figurines could be the discarded Barbie dolls of the Anatolian Neolithic, but they could also be a way of honoring female elders.
If cities didn’t lead to states, what did? Not any singular arrow of history, according to Graeber and Wengrow, but, rather, the gradual and dismal coalescence of otherwise unrelated, parallel processes. In particular, they think it involved the extension of patriarchal domination from the home to society at large.
Such groups weren’t ignorant of whatever else was on offer; they were frequently in contact with other societies, took stock of their habits, and sought to define themselves in contrarian ways, in a rather underexplored process that, following the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, Graeber and Wengrow call “schismogenesis.
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Yes it was!
Wow, that's great! Too bad about all the ***** sacrifice!
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Where’d they go then?
Did the slaves get a 'free apartment'? The children who were sacrificed got to stay at the equivalent of a Ronald McDonald House?
it is fascinating after all these years how anthropologists still fail to recognize that the FIRST human societies were MATRIARCHAL and the degradation of humanity started with the oppression of women🤔
The alarms bells went off at 'High quality apartments'....
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'If something did go terribly wrong in human history, perhaps it began when people started losing that freedom to imagine and enact other forms of social existence; accepting that familiar hierarchies of governance are simply the price of sophistication: cultural-evolution myth.'
'Had it all figured out' plus a fuckton of slaves
Yeah, they had everything figured out all right, like perfecting the art of human sacrifice on tens of thousands of people. But, hey, who’s counting?
they had slaves of color too... and everybody got a vote
lol woke archaeology
Aren’t they extinct?
Standard 'noble savage' bullshit
And then their civilisation completely disappeared...🙄
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They were especially adept at human sacrifice 😅
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