We continue our halftime break in our reading of The Dawn of Everything to review and summarize a book that is cited in Dawn, and written by a friend and colleague of the Davids. This book is Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott. Among other virtues, it provides some possible answers to questions that Graeber and Wengrow persistently dodge.
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Full Circle :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 11
Why the State Has No Origin, Part 2 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 10
Why the State Has No Origin, Part 1 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 10
Hiding in Plain Sight :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 9
Imaginary Cities :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 8
The Ecology of Freedom :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 7
BONUS: Sympathy for the Serpent :: Liberatory Readings of the Garden of Eden
Gardens of Adonis :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 6
Many Seasons Ago, Part 2 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 5
Many Seasons Ago, Part 1 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 5
Free Peoples and the Origin of Property, part 2 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 4
Free Peoples and the Origin of Property, part 1 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 4
Unfreezing the Ice Age :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 3
Bullies, Mothers, and Others :: Anthropology Beyond The Dawn of Everything
Wicked Liberty :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 2
Farewell to Humanity’s Childhood :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 1
The Witch’s Child :: Bonus Episode
Witches in the New World :: Caliban and the Witch, Chapter 5
The Great Witch Hunt, part 2 :: Caliban and the Witch, Chapter 4
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