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.
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##拖拖拉拉看完瞭,筆記隻寫到一半,估計還要有一段時間纔能搞完。播客或者視頻肯定是要搞的,但發現光這本書不夠,所以開始看against the grain,等將相關的幾本看完再來個大閤集吧。這裏用一種方法總結一下:我們總在科普文本裏看到,如果將地球或者人類曆史比為一年,那麼文字和文明的曆史隻是最後一分鍾或者最後一天。這是一個非常好的比喻,但它從來沒有達到它應有的效果,就是用正常的眼光去對待那之前的364天。這本書讓我找迴瞭這種眼光。
評分##I have been taking on a long vacation without any jobs (kind of aimless), this book has been such a pleasure to read. It is already turning out to be the most powerful read for me in 2022. I mean, who wouldn't love a book that finally argues that agricultur...
評分 評分書是好書。可我實在不感興趣。讀完50%,棄掉,有緣再見。
評分 評分##3.5 Took me a long time to finish it but I did. It was eye opening how wrong some established theories in the field of anthropology are. But overall the book was boring as hell. I’m just not that concerned with the subject matter.
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