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David Wengrow and David Graeber - The Dawn of Everything

DEATH // SENTENCE

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Is It Possible to Create More Equal Societies?

This book takes the latest research from anthropology and archaeology to show how this model of history as a constantly progressing thing towards modern society is simply wrong. Before modern societies, there was actually an immense spectrum of political experimentation in which socie s of humans would shift and oscillate between agrarian or hunter gatherers. The loss of that ability to politically experiment and to imagine systems outside of the ones that we carntly live under has been one of the most devastating effects on human development.

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