The Domus Mindset

James C. Scott has this excellent book called Against the Grain, which is an attempt to sort of summarize to synthesize a lot of recent work in archaeology and archaeology going back much before the Romans. We're talking about ancient Sumer here and he looks at the material conditions of the first sort of agricultural proto states that were groups of sedentary individuals practicing agriculture centered on a walled city. The ruling class was still substantially militaristic and extractive in nature. They got their wealth from taking it. Right. But you do refer before you get to the Domus mindset and further discussion your essay to James C. Scott's Domus complex. Can you actually take some time to