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10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail like Occupy Wall Street

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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The Narrative of Human Origins

Most anthropologists think that most of us probably resembled something like the agalitarian hadza or pigmies or kung. But none of them think that we were like the male minted, endlessly futing ano mami. Why is that? We'll see in a few minutes. The narrative that graber and wengro spend the early chapters in the book pretending to debunk isn't actually a narrative that anyone with any expertise really believes.

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