#davidwengrow — Public Fediverse posts

"... In fact, Eurasian populations made a much earlier entry to what was then a genuinely ‘New World’, some 17,000 years ago. What was more, they did indeed think to build boats, following a coastal route that passed around the Pacific Rim, hopping between offshore islands and linear patches of kelp forest and ending somewhere on the southern coast of Chile. Early eastward crossings also took place."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"... In fact, Eurasian populations made a much earlier entry to what was then a genuinely ‘New World’, some 17,000 years ago. What was more, they did indeed think to build boats, following a coastal route that passed around the Pacific Rim, hopping between offshore islands and linear patches of kelp forest and ending somewhere on the southern coast of Chile. Early eastward crossings also took place."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"In parts of Australia, these indigenous techniques of land management were such that, according to one recent study, we should stop speaking of ‘foraging’ altogether, and refer instead to a different sort of farming."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(4/4)

"In parts of Australia, these indigenous techniques of land management were such that, according to one recent study, we should stop speaking of ‘foraging’ altogether, and refer instead to a different sort of farming."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(4/4)

"As indigenous legal scholars have been pointing out for years, the ‘Agricultural Argument’ makes no sense, even on its own terms. There are many ways, other than European-style farming, in which to care for and improve the productivity of land. What to a settler’s eye seemed savage, untouched wilderness ..."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/4)

#agriculture #permaculture #indigenous

"As indigenous legal scholars have been pointing out for years, the ‘Agricultural Argument’ makes no sense, even on its own terms. There are many ways, other than European-style farming, in which to care for and improve the productivity of land. What to a settler’s eye seemed savage, untouched wilderness ..."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/4)

#agriculture #permaculture #indigenous

"Scholars still write as if those living in earlier stages of economic development, and especially those who are classified as ‘egalitarian’, can be treated as if they were literally all the same, living in some collective group-think: if human differences show up in any form – different ‘bands’ being different from each other – it is only in the same way that bands of great apes might differ."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"Scholars still write as if those living in earlier stages of economic development, and especially those who are classified as ‘egalitarian’, can be treated as if they were literally all the same, living in some collective group-think: if human differences show up in any form – different ‘bands’ being different from each other – it is only in the same way that bands of great apes might differ."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

I wonder of David Chapman has written about The Dawn of Everything? I'm only onto the 3rd chapter, but it's already blowing some big holes in the assumptions that underpin the @Meaningness book-in-progress, for example in quotes like this;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116956225889065381

What a shame David Graeber isn't around anymore, I'd like to see a conversation between the 2 of them, and Graeber's co-author David Wengrow.

#Meaningness #DavidChapman #TheDawnOfEverything #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

I wonder of David Chapman has written about The Dawn of Everything? I'm only onto the 3rd chapter, but it's already blowing some big holes in the assumptions that underpin the @Meaningness book-in-progress, for example in quotes like this;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116956225889065381

What a shame David Graeber isn't around anymore, I'd like to see a conversation between the 2 of them, and Graeber's co-author David Wengrow.

#Meaningness #DavidChapman #TheDawnOfEverything #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

"In conversation, we can hold thoughts and reflect on problems sometimes for hours on end. This is of course why so often, even if we’re trying to figure something out by ourselves, we imagine arguing with or explaining it to someone else. Human thought is inherently dialogic."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

"In conversation, we can hold thoughts and reflect on problems sometimes for hours on end. This is of course why so often, even if we’re trying to figure something out by ourselves, we imagine arguing with or explaining it to someone else. Human thought is inherently dialogic."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

"This, [Christopher Boehm] concludes, is the essence of politics: the ability to reflect consciously on different directions one’s society could take, and to make explicit arguments why it should take one path rather than another."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"This, [Christopher Boehm] concludes, is the essence of politics: the ability to reflect consciously on different directions one’s society could take, and to make explicit arguments why it should take one path rather than another."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"This is not, then, a book about the origins of inequality. But it aims to answer many of the same questions in a different way. There is no doubt that something has gone terribly wrong with the world. A very small percentage of its population do control the fates of almost everyone else, and they are doing it in an increasingly disastrous fashion."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"This is not, then, a book about the origins of inequality. But it aims to answer many of the same questions in a different way. There is no doubt that something has gone terribly wrong with the world. A very small percentage of its population do control the fates of almost everyone else, and they are doing it in an increasingly disastrous fashion."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"Back in the 1930s, the anthropologist "Gregory Bateson coined the term 'schismogenesis' to describe people's tendency to define themselves against one another."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/3)

#schismogenesis

"Back in the 1930s, the anthropologist "Gregory Bateson coined the term 'schismogenesis' to describe people's tendency to define themselves against one another."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/3)

#schismogenesis

"A recent survey of medieval literature by two Italian scholars in fact finds no evidence that the Latin terms aequalitas or inaequalitas or their English, French, Spanish, German and Italian cognates were used to describe social relations at all before the time of Columbus."

DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"A recent survey of medieval literature by two Italian scholars in fact finds no evidence that the Latin terms aequalitas or inaequalitas or their English, French, Spanish, German and Italian cognates were used to describe social relations at all before the time of Columbus."

DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

"Many influential Enlightenment thinkers did in fact claim that some of their ideas on the subject were directly taken from Native American sources - even though, predictably, intellectual historians today insist this cannot really be the case."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/?)

#eurocentrism

"Many influential Enlightenment thinkers did in fact claim that some of their ideas on the subject were directly taken from Native American sources - even though, predictably, intellectual historians today insist this cannot really be the case."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/?)

#eurocentrism

"Revisiting what we will call the ‘indigenous critique’ means taking seriously contributions to social thought that come from outside the European canon, and in particular from those indigenous peoples whom Western philosophers tend to cast either in the role of history’s angels or its devils."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

#indigenous

"Revisiting what we will call the ‘indigenous critique’ means taking seriously contributions to social thought that come from outside the European canon, and in particular from those indigenous peoples whom Western philosophers tend to cast either in the role of history’s angels or its devils."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/2)

#indigenous

"To give just a sense of how different the emerging picture is: it is clear now that human societies before the advent of farming were not confined to small, egalitarian bands."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/4)

"To give just a sense of how different the emerging picture is: it is clear now that human societies before the advent of farming were not confined to small, egalitarian bands."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, The Dawn of Everything, 2021

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything

(1/4)

#caturday finally I have a picture of #thedawnofeveryrhing worth #sharing !
#davidgraeber #davidwengrow

#caturday finally I have a picture of #thedawnofeveryrhing worth #sharing !
#davidgraeber #davidwengrow

Some *light* reading -- history and prophecy...

I read #FrankWaters "#TheBookOfTheHopi" many years ago, but misplaced my old copy. Refreshing myself on #HopiProphecy and what it all means for the times we are living in.

#EricCline's "#1177BC" has been a good read. I'm finding his chapter about a "perfect storm of calamities" to be relevant to the age we are living in now, especially with regard to #ClimateCrisis and #Polycrisis.

Graeber/Wengrow's "#TheDawnOfEverything" has taken me a while to get through... So much to take in. Learning about power and systems of power and their origins.

"The Occult Features of #Anarchism" by #EricaLagalisse also deals with systems of power -- and how #MutualAid is part of true autonomy (I agree).

#Bookstodon #AmReading #ReadWithPride #BannedBooks #ToBeBanned? #ReadWhileItsStillLegal #BigBrother #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

Some *light* reading -- history and prophecy...

I read #FrankWaters "#TheBookOfTheHopi" many years ago, but misplaced my old copy. Refreshing myself on #HopiProphecy and what it all means for the times we are living in.

#EricCline's "#1177BC" has been a good read. I'm finding his chapter about a "perfect storm of calamities" to be relevant to the age we are living in now, especially with regard to #ClimateCrisis and #Polycrisis.

Graeber/Wengrow's "#TheDawnOfEverything" has taken me a while to get through... So much to take in. Learning about power and systems of power and their origins.

"The Occult Features of #Anarchism" by #EricaLagalisse also deals with systems of power -- and how #MutualAid is part of true autonomy (I agree).

#Bookstodon #AmReading #ReadWithPride #BannedBooks #ToBeBanned? #ReadWhileItsStillLegal #BigBrother #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

@gustavoduch me ha hecho pensar en este fragmento del libro El amanecer de todo de #davidgraeber y #davidwengrow donde habla de #colonizacion y #agricultura:

(ahora me he fijado que he puesto las fotos en orden inverso y edito para que quien lo lea, no se vuelva loc@)

@gustavoduch me ha hecho pensar en este fragmento del libro El amanecer de todo de #davidgraeber y #davidwengrow donde habla de #colonizacion y #agricultura:

(ahora me he fijado que he puesto las fotos en orden inverso y edito para que quien lo lea, no se vuelva loc@)

Came across this in a post about #SolarPunk a few weeks ago (post may be gone)... Anyhow, I've been reading #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow's book, "The Dawn of Everything," and thought the question posited by #Graeber was relevant to #SolarPunkSunday...

Are You An #Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!

"Every time you treat another human with consideration and respect, you are being an anarchist. Every time you work out your differences with others by coming to reasonable compromise, listening to what everyone has to say rather than letting one person decide for everyone else, you are being an anarchist. Every time you have the opportunity to force someone to do something, but decide to appeal to their sense of reason or justice instead, you are being an anarchist. The same goes for every time you share something with a friend, or decide who is going to do the dishes, or do anything at all with an eye to fairness"

David Graeber, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, p 243, published 2009

"Chances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense. Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion. But it’s one that the rich and powerful have always found extremely dangerous.

At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. Odd though this may seem, in most important ways you are probably already an anarchist — you just don’t realize it.

Let’s start by taking a few examples from everyday life."

Read more:
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-maysurprise-you/

#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #BuildingResilience #NoKings #NoRulers #Inequality #PowerCorrupts

Came across this in a post about #SolarPunk a few weeks ago (post may be gone)... Anyhow, I've been reading #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow's book, "The Dawn of Everything," and thought the question posited by #Graeber was relevant to #SolarPunkSunday...

Are You An #Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!

"Every time you treat another human with consideration and respect, you are being an anarchist. Every time you work out your differences with others by coming to reasonable compromise, listening to what everyone has to say rather than letting one person decide for everyone else, you are being an anarchist. Every time you have the opportunity to force someone to do something, but decide to appeal to their sense of reason or justice instead, you are being an anarchist. The same goes for every time you share something with a friend, or decide who is going to do the dishes, or do anything at all with an eye to fairness"

David Graeber, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, p 243, published 2009

"Chances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense. Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion. But it’s one that the rich and powerful have always found extremely dangerous.

At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. Odd though this may seem, in most important ways you are probably already an anarchist — you just don’t realize it.

Let’s start by taking a few examples from everyday life."

Read more:
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-maysurprise-you/

#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #BuildingResilience #NoKings #NoRulers #Inequality #PowerCorrupts

#DavidWengrow fasst am Ende dieses Gespräches gut drei miteinander verflochtende Grund-Aspekte von #Freiheit zusammen:

1—Bewegung weg von einer Umgebung hin zu einer anderen (Netzwerk überregional-freundschaftlicher Stammesgesellschaften);

2—Verweigerung von Befehlen (Debatte, Überzeugung & Teilhabe statt Zwang, Gewalt & Hierarchie)

3—Vorstellung & Schaffung alternativer Gesellschaftsformen (Wechsel zwischen verschiedenen Lebenswelten).

#GroßraumPhantastik

#DavidWengrow fasst am Ende dieses Gespräches gut drei miteinander verflochtende Grund-Aspekte von #Freiheit zusammen:

1—Bewegung weg von einer Umgebung hin zu einer anderen (Netzwerk überregional-freundschaftlicher Stammesgesellschaften);

2—Verweigerung von Befehlen (Debatte, Überzeugung & Teilhabe statt Zwang, Gewalt & Hierarchie)

3—Vorstellung & Schaffung alternativer Gesellschaftsformen (Wechsel zwischen verschiedenen Lebenswelten).

#GroßraumPhantastik

Neuer Plausch mit #DavidWengrow lohnt sich sowohl für alle, die Vertiefung und aktuelle Ergänzung zu »The Dawn of Everything« (zusammen mit #DavidGraeber 2021; Dt. »Anfänge« 2022) suchen, als auch alle, denen der Schinken zu dick ist.
Bietet wertvolle Rundschau zu den Reibungen zwischen historisch-ideologischen Mythen und soziologisch-archäologischen Erkenntnissen.
>>

https://youtu.be/GEJ8WAiHRE0

#GroßraumPhantastik #IchWillEIneBessereKatastrophe

Neuer Plausch mit #DavidWengrow lohnt sich sowohl für alle, die Vertiefung und aktuelle Ergänzung zu »The Dawn of Everything« (zusammen mit #DavidGraeber 2021; Dt. »Anfänge« 2022) suchen, als auch alle, denen der Schinken zu dick ist.
Bietet wertvolle Rundschau zu den Reibungen zwischen historisch-ideologischen Mythen und soziologisch-archäologischen Erkenntnissen.
>>

https://youtu.be/GEJ8WAiHRE0

#GroßraumPhantastik #IchWillEIneBessereKatastrophe

“#TheDawnOfEverything”: #DavidWengrow & the Late #DavidGraeber On a New #HistoryOfHumanity -

2021

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDO28CPAPuM&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

#book #DemocracyNow

“#TheDawnOfEverything”: #DavidWengrow & the Late #DavidGraeber On a New #HistoryOfHumanity -

2021

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDO28CPAPuM&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

#book #DemocracyNow

Has anyone written about / applied #DavidGraeber & #DavidWengrow's three basic forms of social #freedom to #technology and/or #SocialMedia? I'd love to read this.

- the freedom to escape one's surroundings and move away,
- the freedom to disobey arbitrary authority, and
- the freedom to reimagine and reconstruct one's society in a different form.

@DGI #TheDawnofEverything

#Minoan religion and arts are profoundly not interested in the self-perpetuating, power-hungry ego. What they celebrate is the opposite: the ritually-induced release from individuality, and an ecstacy of being that is overtly erotic and spiritual at the same time (ek-stasis, or “standing beyond oneself”)—a cosmos that both nurtures and ignores the individual, that vibrates with inseparable sexual energies and spiritual epiphanies.

#DavidGraeber #Graeber #Wengrow #DavidWengrow #Crete #JackDempsey

#GRK0081 #Libertés #Anthropologie #Philosophie #DavidGRAEBER #DavidWENGROW
Au commencement était...
Une nouvelle histoire de l'humanité
D.Graeber & D.Wengrow (2021, LLL)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/ZJIxzChI#RaK5HRLqZCmg7u6FpwGYpt8lrpjiJY_IWi9_KAkvLuc
Si t'as les moyens:
https://www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-Au_commencement_%C3%A9tait-672-1-1-0-1.html

Présentation:
« Ceci n’est pas un livre. C’est un festin intellectuel. Il est profond, iconoclaste, rigoureux sur le plan factuel et passionnant à lire. »
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Depuis des siècles, nous nous racontons sur les origines des sociétés humaines et des inégalités sociales une histoire très simple. Pendant l’essentiel de leur existence sur terre, les êtres humains auraient vécu au sein de petits clans de chasseurs-cueilleurs. Puis l’agriculture aurait fait son entrée, et avec elle la propriété privée. Enfin seraient nées les villes, marquant l’apparition non seulement de la civilisation, mais aussi des guerres, de la bureaucratie, du patriarcat et de l’esclavage.

Ce récit pose un gros problème : il est faux.

David Graeber et David Wengrow se sont donné pour objectif de « jeter les bases d’une nouvelle histoire du monde ». Le temps d’un voyage fascinant, ils nous invitent à nous débarrasser de notre carcan conceptuel et à tenter de comprendre quelles sociétés nos ancêtres cherchaient à créer.

Foisonnant d’érudition, s’appuyant sur des recherches novatrices, leur ouvrage dévoile un passé humain infiniment plus intéressant que ne le suggèrent les lectures conventionnelles. Il élargit surtout nos horizons dans le présent, en montrant qu’il est toujours possible de réinventer nos libertés et nos modes d’organisation sociale.

Un livre monumental d’une extraordinaire portée intellectuelle dont vous ne sortirez pas indemne et qui bouleversera à jamais votre perception de l’histoire humaine.
[LLL]

=============

David Graeber (1961-2020)
est l’un des intellectuels les plus en vue et les plus ancrés dans les réalités socio-économiques de son époque.
Penseur iconoclaste, figure de proue d’Occupy Wall Street, anarchiste, historien de la dette, pourfendeur de la bureaucratie capitaliste, inventeur du concept des « bullshit jobs », il aura marqué son temps de sa malice et de son intelligence sensible.
Docteur en anthropologie et économiste, il enseignait ces deux matières à la London School of Economics.
Il est notamment l’auteur de Dette : 5 000 ans d’histoire (2013, LLL), Bureaucratie (2015, LLL) et Bullshit Jobs (2018, LLL).

David Wengrow
est archéologue et professeur à l’Institut d’archéologie de l’University College de Londres (UCL).
Il a publié plusieurs livres et articles universitaires sur des sujets ayant trait à l’origine de l’écriture, l’art antique, les sociétés néolithiques ou encore l’émergence des premiers États en Égypte et en Mésopotamie.

#GRK0081 #Libertés #Anthropologie #Philosophie #DavidGRAEBER #DavidWENGROW
Au commencement était...
Une nouvelle histoire de l'humanité
D.Graeber & D.Wengrow (2021, LLL)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/ZJIxzChI#RaK5HRLqZCmg7u6FpwGYpt8lrpjiJY_IWi9_KAkvLuc
Si t'as les moyens:
https://www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-Au_commencement_%C3%A9tait-672-1-1-0-1.html

Présentation:
« Ceci n’est pas un livre. C’est un festin intellectuel. Il est profond, iconoclaste, rigoureux sur le plan factuel et passionnant à lire. »
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Depuis des siècles, nous nous racontons sur les origines des sociétés humaines et des inégalités sociales une histoire très simple. Pendant l’essentiel de leur existence sur terre, les êtres humains auraient vécu au sein de petits clans de chasseurs-cueilleurs. Puis l’agriculture aurait fait son entrée, et avec elle la propriété privée. Enfin seraient nées les villes, marquant l’apparition non seulement de la civilisation, mais aussi des guerres, de la bureaucratie, du patriarcat et de l’esclavage.

Ce récit pose un gros problème : il est faux.

David Graeber et David Wengrow se sont donné pour objectif de « jeter les bases d’une nouvelle histoire du monde ». Le temps d’un voyage fascinant, ils nous invitent à nous débarrasser de notre carcan conceptuel et à tenter de comprendre quelles sociétés nos ancêtres cherchaient à créer.

Foisonnant d’érudition, s’appuyant sur des recherches novatrices, leur ouvrage dévoile un passé humain infiniment plus intéressant que ne le suggèrent les lectures conventionnelles. Il élargit surtout nos horizons dans le présent, en montrant qu’il est toujours possible de réinventer nos libertés et nos modes d’organisation sociale.

Un livre monumental d’une extraordinaire portée intellectuelle dont vous ne sortirez pas indemne et qui bouleversera à jamais votre perception de l’histoire humaine.
[LLL]

=============

David Graeber (1961-2020)
est l’un des intellectuels les plus en vue et les plus ancrés dans les réalités socio-économiques de son époque.
Penseur iconoclaste, figure de proue d’Occupy Wall Street, anarchiste, historien de la dette, pourfendeur de la bureaucratie capitaliste, inventeur du concept des « bullshit jobs », il aura marqué son temps de sa malice et de son intelligence sensible.
Docteur en anthropologie et économiste, il enseignait ces deux matières à la London School of Economics.
Il est notamment l’auteur de Dette : 5 000 ans d’histoire (2013, LLL), Bureaucratie (2015, LLL) et Bullshit Jobs (2018, LLL).

David Wengrow
est archéologue et professeur à l’Institut d’archéologie de l’University College de Londres (UCL).
Il a publié plusieurs livres et articles universitaires sur des sujets ayant trait à l’origine de l’écriture, l’art antique, les sociétés néolithiques ou encore l’émergence des premiers États en Égypte et en Mésopotamie.

#DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow in Dawn of Everything, chapter 12 write:

All Wendat wars were, in fact, ‘mourning wars’, carried out to assuage the grief felt by close relatives of someone who had been killed.Typically, a war party would strike against traditional enemies, bringing back a few scalps and a small number of prisoners. Captive women and childre... MESSAGE CLIPPED

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#DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow in Dawn of Everything, chapter 12 write:

All Wendat wars were, in fact, ‘mourning wars’, carried out to assuage the grief felt by close relatives of someone who had been killed.Typically, a war party would strike against traditional enemies, bringing back a few scalps and a small number of prisoners. Captive women and childre... MESSAGE CLIPPED

FULL TEXT: 6 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1846#p1846

@bobojp @Linkshaender @Pierrette @xChaos

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... qualifications to enter bureaucracies are typically based on some form of knowledge that has virtually nothing to do with actual administration.

#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 11.

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https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1508#p1508

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Each day the adult men of a town would gather to spend much of the day arguing about politics, in a spirit of rational debate, in conversations punctuated by the smoking of tobacco and drinking of caffeinated beverages.

#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 11.

@donar @xChaos

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Living in unbounded, eternal, largely imaginary groups is effectively what humans had been doing all along.

#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.

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Living in unbounded, eternal, largely imaginary groups is effectively what humans had been doing all along.

#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.

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... the mere fact that much of the world’s population now live in cities may not determine how we live, to anything like the extent you might assume...

#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.

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"Far from being expected to demonstrate personal charisma or the ability to outdo rivals, those who aspired to a role on the Council of Tlaxcala did so in a spirit of self-deprecation—even shame—and were required to subordinate themselves to the people of the city."

#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, 2020

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight

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#democracy #RepresentativeGovernment

I picked up this book because I heard it has new insights into the daily lives of ancient humans, which is a thing I enjoy thinking about. The book delivers that for sure, but also, it’s a super radicalizing indictment of assumptions in social sciences and colonialism/capitalism in general, and suggests encouragingly that we have a choice about how our lives are organized. So glad I read it. #TheDawnOfEverything #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow