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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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Why Even Very Sordid Researchers Still Cling to the Idea That Social Inequality Has a Origin

Author: When it comes to cultural flourishing, the authors have no problem with materialist arguments. But we'll see as we go that when it comes to explanations for dominance, hirarke, those same kind of explanations and ideas fly oup the window or rather, they get buried under the rug. Next section is why even very sophisticated researchers still find ways to cling to the idea that social inequality has a origin.

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