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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 first half of chapter three, unfreezing the ice age. The authors try to argue that human beings did not begin as the galaterian hunter gatherers by ignoring the first several thousand years of human existence. A political hierarchy is one where people are ranked into different categories according to different levels of decision making power.

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