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A Critique of "The Dawn of Everything" with Sam Biagetti
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184 minutes
Released:
Mar 21, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Sam Biagetti of Historiansplaining podcast joins me to discuss what's good, what's bad, and what's ugly in David Graber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything." We begin with an appreciative account of their dismantling of deterministic accounts of human social evolution, and then turn to a critical assessment of their theoretical assumption, their peculiar revisionist account of the Enlightenment, and their undervaluing of myth, ritual, and transcendence.
The Dawn of Everything: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything
Listen to and support Historiansplaining here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632
Sam's cross-post of this episode has a useful list of other sources discussed: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dissecting-dawn-63996926
The Dawn of Everything: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything
Listen to and support Historiansplaining here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632
Sam's cross-post of this episode has a useful list of other sources discussed: https://www.patreon.com/posts/dissecting-dawn-63996926
Released:
Mar 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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