2min chapter

WHAT IS POLITICS? cover image

7. The Origin of Social Hierarchy and Male Dominance: why David Graeber and Jordan Peterson are Wrong

WHAT IS POLITICS?

CHAPTER

Why People Are Organizing Differently Because of Experiments

graber, like many anthropologists who are educated in the post modernist, dark ages of the humanities, misses all these material connections. So he just thinks that people are organizing differently because experiments. No, people aren't self consciously experimenting with hirarchy an ity. What they are experimenting with is which kinds of economic activities and defense strategies and residence pattens work best in different contexts and in different seasons. And those activities and those strategies have consequences on bargaining power, which gives some people the ability to dominate others against their will or not. There are times and places where those people who want to dominate went out, and times and placeswhere they can't.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode