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Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

omnipresent heretical conspiracy to overthrow all property relations

Marvin Harris • Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

Contrary to earlier assumptions, hunters and gatherers—even today in the marginal refugia they inhabit—are nothing like the famished, one-day-away-from-starvation desperados of folklore. Hunters and gathers have, in fact, never looked so good—in terms of their diet, their health, and their leisure. Agriculturalists, on the contrary, have never

James C. Scott • Against the Grain

Sahlins (1972), p. 37. 21. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/04/the-exchange-david-plotz.html.

Cacilda Jetha • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

How Civilization Broke Our Brains

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

Ultimately, it is the ideology of human supremacy that allows us to maltreat animals in factory farms, blow up mountaintops for coal, turn vibrant rainforest into monocropped wastelands, trawl millions of miles of ocean floor with nets that scoop up everything that moves—while glorying in the Anthropocene, claiming that nature only exists to serve... See more

resilience.org • The Ideology of Human Supremacy

Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens

‘We now have clear proof of cannibalism in this site.’ Signs of butchery were everywhere – not just on the odd bone. Almost two thirds of bones from post-cranial parts of the skeleton (any bone other than the skull and mandible) bore cut-marks. And in many places, the cuts were grouped, in parallel, at key sites of muscle and ligament attachment.