The Dawn of Everything (Record no. 59352)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241585184
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Distributor Name :Zafaa Books & Distributors
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Classification number 901 GRA
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Personal name Graeber, David
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Title The Dawn of Everything
Remainder of title : a new history of humanity
Statement of responsibility, etc / David Graeber
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Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Date of publication, distribution, etc ©2021
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Price amount 999
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Contents note Farewell to humanity's childhood, Or, why this is not a book about the origins of inequality --<br/>Wicked liberty: The indigenous critique and the myth of progress --<br/>Unfreezing the Ice Age: In and out of chains: the protean possibilities of human politics --<br/>Free people, the origin of cultures, and the advent of private property (not necessarily in that order) --<br/>Many seasons ago: Why Canadian foragers kept slaves and their Californian neighbours didn't; or, the problem with 'modes of production' --<br/>Gardens of Adonis: The revolution that never happened: how Neolithic peoples avoided agriculture --<br/>The ecology of freedom: How farming first hopped, stumbled and bluffed its way around the world --<br/>Imaginary cities: Eurasia's first urbanites --<br/>in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, Ukraine and China--and how they built cities without kings --<br/>Hiding in plain sight: The indigenous origins of social housing and democracy in the Americas --<br/>Why the state has no origin: The humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy, and politics --<br/>Full circle: On the historical foundations of the indigenous critique --<br/>Conclusion: The dawn of everything.
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Summary, etc "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? 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."
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Philosophy and theory of history
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Civilization -- Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element World history.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social history.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Histoire sociale.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element social history.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Historia social
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Historia universal
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Science / Life Sciences / Evolution.
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Personal name Graeber, David
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Personal name Wengrow, David
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 07/06/2022 Zafaa Books & Distributors   901 GRA 28746 07/06/2022 07/06/2022 Books

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