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

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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.

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