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10.1 Graeber & Wengrow’s “The Dawn of Everything”: What is an “Egalitarian” Society?

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The Difference Between Bands and Tribal Societies

Greber is ignoring the most egalaterian societies and then focusing on societies that have clear signs of hierarchy in order to argue that equality doesn't exist. The micmac algonquin or seventeenth century wandat would have been referred to as the galaterian societies before the 19 seventies, but not any more. A tribe is an entirely different shabang. You are born into a tribe. If you go off and live somewhere else, you are still part of your tribe. But no anthropologist thinks this. Tribal membership will be determined by who your father is in a patrilennial society, or who your mother is in a matrilenial society.

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