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

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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The Savage Is the Legacy of a Galaterian Origins

The author of a new book criticises the idea that primitive people were incapable of conscious reflect and eccentricity. He says it's not unusual to find even very sophisticated contemporary thinkers who feel its appropriate to compare bands of hunter gatherers with chimps or baboons. The authors go on to cite uval herrari, who is not an anthropologist,. And they shit on him for comparing prehistoric foragers, potentially warlike or peaceful dispositions, to that of chimps versus benobos instead of to human bicer gangs versus hippies.

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