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Our distant ancestors have been portrayed as unsophisticated and infantile for generations, either as free and equal innocents or as thuggish and warlike. We are informed that only by abandoning those fundamental liberties, or, conversely, by controlling our baser instincts, can we achieve civilization. According to David Graeber and David Wengrow, such views first arose in the eighteenth century as a conservative response to forceful critiques of European society made by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Reconsidering this encounter has significant ramifications for how we understand human history today, including the origins of agriculture, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.
The authors show how history becomes a considerably more intriguing place if we learn to let go of our mental shackles and perceive what's truly there, based on ground-breaking studies in archaeology and anthropology. What were humans doing during 95 percent of their evolutionary history if they weren't living in small bands of hunter-gatherers? What forms of the social and economic organization did agriculture and cities lead to if they didn't mean a plunge into hierarchy and dominance? The results are frequently surprising, implying that the course of human history may be less predetermined and more full of fun, hopeful possibilities than we commonly believe.
The Dawn of Everything significantly alters our perspective of human history and provides a roadmap for creating new forms of freedom and new social structures. This is a massive work with a vast intellectual scope, driven by curiosity, moral vision, and belief in the power of direct action.
Book details: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
- Author : David Graeber & David Wengrow
- Language : English
- ISBN : 0374157359
- ISBN-13 : 9780374157357
- Number of pages : 704 pages
- Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Date of Publication : November 9, 2021
About the authors: David Graeber
Graeber took a lectureship in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, on June 15, 2007, and is currently a Reader in Social Anthropology there.
He was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University until his term there expired in June 2007, after Yale University controversially declined to rehire him. Graeber had a long history of social and political activism, including participation in anti-World Economic Forum protests in New York City (2002) and membership in the International Workers of the World labor union.
He is particularly interested in the archaeology of human evolution, the archaeology of human heritage, and civilization in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as prehistoric and dynastic Egyptian cultures.
Reviews: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"Graeber and Wengrow debunk myths about humanity's long past to expand our understanding of what is conceivable in the future." There is no other endeavor that is more important or timely."―Jaron Lanier, author of Dawn of the New Everything
"A fascinating investigation that invites us to reconsider the nature of human capacities, as well as the finest moments in our history, and our contacts with and debt to indigenous civilizations' cultures and thinkers. It was both challenging and enlightening."―Noam Chomsky
"Graeber and Wengrow take up a topic as old as Rousseau's about the origins of social inequality, only to discover that it predates Rousseau and may even be the wrong subject, based on sloppy history and reactionary speculation." The writers scavenge the most recent archaeological research and anthropological record to present us with a world more diverse and unexpected than we imagined, and more open and free than we imagined. This is magnificent, old-fashioned social theory, presented with spellbinding speed and an exhilarating sense of discovery."―Corey Robin, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
“By synthesizing much recent work, The Dawn of Everything deftly deconstructs old and obsolete historical beliefs, renews our intellectual and spiritual resources, and magically unveils the future as open-ended. It's the most energizing book I've read in a long time."―Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger
"Graeber and Wengrow, unsatisfied with various answers to the grand problems of human history, insist on revolutionizing the very questions we ask." The result is a fascinating, creative, and persuasive description of 'pre-modern' indigenous life's rich, playful, introspective, and experimental symposia, as well as a demanding re-writing of anthropology and archaeology's intellectual past. The Dawn of Everything deserves to be the starting point for nearly all future efforts on these huge themes. Those who do embark will have unequaled navigators in the two Davids."―James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology (‘Demeritus’), Yale University, author of Seeing Like a State
"The Dawn of Everything is also a radical rewriting of everything," says the author, "freeing us from the old tales about humanity's past that are all too often used to confine how we conceive humanity's future." Instead, they teach us that, from the beginning, human beings have been creative, and that there is no one way we were, should, or could be. A reclaiming of Indigenous perspectives as a huge effect on European thought, a crucial contribution to decolonizing world histories, is another powerful current flowing through this work."―Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark and Orwell’s Roses
"This isn't a book," says the narrator. This is a feast for the mind. There isn't a single chapter in the book that doesn't (jokingly) challenge long-held views. It's rich, effortlessly iconoclastic, factually rigorous, and entertaining to read."―Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author The Black Swan
"Graeber and Wengrow have successfully overturned all I have believed about world history." The Dawn of Everything introduces us to a world populated by smart, creative, complicated individuals who, for thousands of years, devised almost every type of social structure possible and pursued freedom, knowledge, exploration, and happiness long before the "Enlightenment." The writers don't only dispel the myths; they also provide a fascinating intellectual history of how they arose, why they endure, and what it all means for the just future we seek."―Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"The book's argument is firmly based on a deluge of recent evidence suggesting that pre-agricultural societies were complex, that agriculture was not the sudden turning point it is claimed to be, and, most importantly, that large, successful systems such as cities have been run without central, rule-giving controllers... This isn't just a debate about the past; it's about the current state of humanity."―Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times (UK)
"An ingenious new look at 'the broad sweep of human history' and many of its 'foundational' stories... [Graeber and Wengrow] cast doubt on conventional accounts of civilization's rise, highlighting Indigenous contributions and the errors of the great Enlightenment thinkers, and drawing a slew of thought-provoking conclusions..."A huge book with great ideas that is both intriguing and intellectually difficult."―Kirkus Reviews [starred review]
"The Dawn of Everything's core, thrilling revelation is that our forefathers purposefully and wisely created their society. It's a book that refuses to discard ancient peoples as if they were corks floating on the prehistoric seas. Instead, it portrays them as thoughtful political philosophers from whom we may learn."―Daniel Immerwahr, The Nation
"A boldly ambitious work that appears intent on attacking received wisdom and myths on nearly every one of its nearly 700 absorbing pages... entertaining and thought-provoking... an impressively large undertaking that succeeds in making us reconsider not only the distant past but also the too-close-to-see present, as well as the common thread that is our shifting and elusive nature."―Andrew Anthony, The Observer (UK)
"It's an immediate classic... On turning the pages, fatalistic ideas about human nature fade away... [The Dawn of Everything] is in a different league than all the other world history books we're used to reading... If comparisons must be made, they should be made with analogous works in other domains, most notably, I believe, with Galileo's or Darwin's writings. Graeber and Wengrow bring human history to life in the same way as the first two did for astronomy and biology, respectively."―Giulio Ongaro, Jacobin
"Graeber and Wengrow present a 30,000-year history that is not just unlike anything we've seen before, but also far more fascinating: textured, startling, paradoxical, inspiring... It aspires to replace the current grand narrative of history, not with one of its own making, but with the shape of a picture of a human past full of political experimentation and inventiveness that is only now becoming visible. "―William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic
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