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.
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
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[https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/the-dawn-of-everything/] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 萬物黎明:新人類史 David Graeber, David Wengrow / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / 2021-11 子扉我 2021年小雪 申城西樓 原載[迴響編輯部]微信2021...
評分 評分[https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/the-dawn-of-everything/] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 萬物黎明:新人類史 David Graeber, David Wengrow / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / 2021-11 子扉我 2021年小雪 申城西樓 原載[迴響編輯部]微信2021...
評分1.世界上有一些人是天生不願意接受規則的「規則質疑者」,另多半則是「標準玩傢」,雖然麵對著同一個世界,但看到的卻是完全不一樣的景象。是他們的博弈推動世界規則的變化嗎。也許不然,我更願意理解曆史規則的演化是一個自然發生的過程:「當整個社會運行更加平等的組織形式的...
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被大傢安利又是感興趣的話題抱以厚望,但是發現這書是真的不適閤聽,聽得東一榔頭西一棒槌非常零散。有機會再找文字版讀一遍吧。
評分花瞭一個月讀完,想打999顆星。重新講述瞭人類史,證明瞭我們對社會進化論的想象隻是一種迷思。西方現代政治體製絕對不是曆史的終結,人類完全有能力想象齣真正平等的組織形式並將其付諸實踐。
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評分感覺重新認識瞭人類的曆史,也很喜歡Graeber循序漸進接近真相的思辨過程。
評分十分重要的一本書,齣現在這個不安的時期是一劑安慰,但放入整個人類曆史的脈絡裏就顯得說服力不是特彆強瞭
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