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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 eighteenth 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.
Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, and The Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.
David Wengrow is a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of three books, including What Makes Civilization?. Wengrow conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.
很好看,我还把句式用在了雅思作文上面
评分历史叙述不太靠谱,甚至夸大和曲解现有的考古研究成果,只是为了宣扬他们的无政府主义主张。出于我自己的理论习惯,我对人类学无政府主义的抵触在于,如果脱离法律和权威的概念,自由和平等不过是空洞的想象罢了。感觉是就像是福山观点的对立面。
评分书中有些criticism我真是想举双手双脚赞成。大部头,而且信息比较密集,适合每天读个一两章。
评分想象力革命
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[https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/the-dawn-of-everything/] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 万物黎明:新人类史 David Graeber, David Wengrow / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / 2021-11 子扉我 2021年小雪 申城西楼 原载[回响编辑部]微信2021...
评分I have been taking on a long vacation without any jobs (kind of aimless), this book has been such a pleasure to read. It is already turning out to be the most powerful read for me in 2022. I mean, who wouldn't love a book that finally argues that agricultur...
评分1.世界上有一些人是天生不愿意接受规则的「规则质疑者」,另多半则是「标准玩家」,虽然面对着同一个世界,但看到的却是完全不一样的景象。是他们的博弈推动世界规则的变化吗。也许不然,我更愿意理解历史规则的演化是一个自然发生的过程:「当整个社会运行更加平等的组织形式的...
评分I have been taking on a long vacation without any jobs (kind of aimless), this book has been such a pleasure to read. It is already turning out to be the most powerful read for me in 2022. I mean, who wouldn't love a book that finally argues that agricultur...
评分[https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/the-dawn-of-everything/] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 万物黎明:新人类史 David Graeber, David Wengrow / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / 2021-11 子扉我 2021年小雪 申城西楼 原载[回响编辑部]微信2021...
The Dawn of Everything pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024