A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Author(s)
- David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Publication
- London : Penguin, 2022 [2011]
- Scope
- 720 Pages, illustrated, 19.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780141991061
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we assumed, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Anthropologists and activists David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, 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 begin to see what's really there.
- Keywords
- philosophy , history , anthropology
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Filosofie ; Sociologie ; Maatschappij ; Politiek
- Remarks
- Includes list of maps and figures, notes, bibliography, index
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