Simplicity is Complicated: On the Effort of Creating and Maintaining Equality

A key point David Graeber and David Wengrow make in their mammoth work, The Dawn of Everything (2021), is that we humans are not by default  redisposed to hierarchy or equality, but are first and foremost a socially creative species. In this essay, I take up Wengrow and Graeber’s notion that humans...

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Main Author: Tuomas Tammisto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Suomen Antropologinen Seura (Finnish Anthropological Society) 2023-10-01
Series:Suomen Antropologi
Online Access:https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/137823