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242 – The Dawn of The Dawn of Everything (w/ David Wengrow)
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What's So Exciting About Anthropology?
This has been one of the key debates in anthropology for a long time. The question was always well, how did they doit? How did they design a form of society that seemed to be almost entirely devoted to insuring that nothing like that ever happens? What's so exciting about the present moment is that we're actually getting to the point where the history and the archaeology can actually meet up with the more interesting kind of ethnographic and anthropological accounts. It brings into view this whole new picture of world history that we're starting to see now.
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