The Dawn of Everything: Social Science with a Mission
The Dawn of Everything is a general-audience social science book with a mission. In a nutshell, the book argues against evolutionary accounts that view societal development as a trade-off involving increased social complexity, increased social control, and the loss of egalitarian ideals. Since Rou...
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Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society)
2023-10-01
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The Dawn of Everything is a general-audience social science book with a mission. In a nutshell, the book argues against evolutionary accounts that view societal development as a trade-off involving increased social complexity, increased social control, and the loss of egalitarian ideals. Since Rousseau’s Social Contract, Graeber and Wengrow argue, Western thought has followed a ‘myth’ which sees inequality and coercion as necessary byproducts of the transition to higher states of civilisation. Laying out a broad array of recent archaeological and classic anthropological evidence, the authors argue that unilineal accounts of world history ignore too much evidence to the contrary to be convincing.
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| spelling | doaj.art-75b94f02dd9b4145afc870dbb88657462023-10-08T15:40:46ZengSuomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society)Suomen Antropologi1799-89722023-10-0147310.30676/jfas.137821The Dawn of Everything: Social Science with a MissionMatti Eräsaari0University of Helsinki The Dawn of Everything is a general-audience social science book with a mission. In a nutshell, the book argues against evolutionary accounts that view societal development as a trade-off involving increased social complexity, increased social control, and the loss of egalitarian ideals. Since Rousseau’s Social Contract, Graeber and Wengrow argue, Western thought has followed a ‘myth’ which sees inequality and coercion as necessary byproducts of the transition to higher states of civilisation. Laying out a broad array of recent archaeological and classic anthropological evidence, the authors argue that unilineal accounts of world history ignore too much evidence to the contrary to be convincing. https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/137821 |
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