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David L Ellis
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perhaps, Ötzi suiting Pinker’s argument.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
A first step towards a more accurate, and hopeful, picture of world history might be to abandon the Garden of Eden once and for all, and simply do away with the notion that for hundreds of thousands of years, everyone on earth shared the same idyllic form of social organization.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Melanesian society is organized tribally, into what anthropologists call segmentary lineages, groups of people who trace their descent to a common ancestor. Numbering anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand kinsmen, these tribes are locally known as wantoks, a pidgin corruption of the English words “one talk,” or people who speak the same langu... See more
Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order
There is, I believe, a long period, measured not in centuries but in millennia—between the earliest appearance of states and lasting until perhaps only four centuries ago—that might be called a “golden age for barbarians” and for nonstate peoples in general. For much of this long epoch, the political enclosure movement represented by the modern nat
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Hobbes’s Leviathan,
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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