10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”
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Bom's Counter Dominance
evolutionary anthropologist and specialist in primate dies, he argues that while humans do have an instinctual tendency to engage in submissive, dominance behavior. What makes societies distinctively human is our ability to make the conscious decision not to act in that way. The authors continue carefully working through ethnographic accounts of existing agalterian foraging bands in africa, south america and southeast asia. This is greyburn wangro making bom into a muppet and putting words into his mouth. We'll see some weird, confusing examples of this in the next episode.
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