TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graeber,David
AU  - Wengrow,D.
TI  - The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity 
SN  - 9780241402450 (e-book)
PY  - 2021///
CY  - UK
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social history
KW  - World history
KW  - History
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Prehistory
KW  - thema
KW  - General & world history
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - Archaeology by period / region
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780241402429; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - 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 path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our shackles and perceive what's really there
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ER  -