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10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”

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Dominance Hiararchy - The Difference Between Democracy and Sexual Assault

A dominance hirarchy is something that people on the top impose on those below them. The authors of dawn of everyh create a lot of confusion when it comes to understanding why we got stuck in a hierarchy, and how we can get unstuck. They're completely oblivious to the fact that the people on the bottom rungs of those seasonal hierarchies like innumit women in the winter were actually stuck in those hierarchies. It's just that the conditions which gave men a bargaining advantage over others only lasted for months at a time. i want to lay out the basic ingredients, building blocks, or dominant hirarkees e,  that you can build your own domination

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