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
元现代主义(Metamodernism)是发展的最后阶段吗?混沌理论可能是答案 作者:Hanzi Freinacht,原文:https://medium.com/@hanzifreinacht/is-metamodernism-the-last-stage-of-development-meta-meme-chaos-theory-might-hold-the-answer-ddb27ad8889a 混沌不是阶梯--但阶梯是通...
評分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...
評分元现代主义(Metamodernism)是发展的最后阶段吗?混沌理论可能是答案 作者:Hanzi Freinacht,原文:https://medium.com/@hanzifreinacht/is-metamodernism-the-last-stage-of-development-meta-meme-chaos-theory-might-hold-the-answer-ddb27ad8889a 混沌不是阶梯--但阶梯是通...
評分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...
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
评分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。
评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
评分https://athenacool.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/the-dawn-of-everything/
评分書是好書。可我實在不感興趣。讀完50%,棄掉,有緣再見。
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