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David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, and The Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.
David Wengrow is a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of three books, including What Makes Civilization?. Wengrow conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.
Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of the state? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
Includes Black-and-White Illustrations
##读了一个半月,先这么着吧。历史是个大舞台,你方唱罢我登场,唯一重要的是永远不要接受“事实”,永远不要放弃想象。
评分##“We know,now,that we are in the presence of myths.’
评分 评分##花了一个月读完,想打999颗星。重新讲述了人类史,证明了我们对社会进化论的想象只是一种迷思。西方现代政治体制绝对不是历史的终结,人类完全有能力想象出真正平等的组织形式并将其付诸实践。
评分 评分##历史叙述不太靠谱,甚至夸大和曲解现有的考古研究成果,只是为了宣扬他们的无政府主义主张。出于我自己的理论习惯,我对人类学无政府主义的抵触在于,如果脱离法律和权威的概念,自由和平等不过是空洞的想象罢了。感觉是就像是福山观点的对立面。
评分##历史叙述不太靠谱,甚至夸大和曲解现有的考古研究成果,只是为了宣扬他们的无政府主义主张。出于我自己的理论习惯,我对人类学无政府主义的抵触在于,如果脱离法律和权威的概念,自由和平等不过是空洞的想象罢了。感觉是就像是福山观点的对立面。
评分The Dawn of Everything pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载