The Dawn of Everything
Social Science with a Mission
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3028217 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matti Eräsaari (0000-0002-7851-2685, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 93-94 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-08 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Suomen Antropologi Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0355-3930 • E-ISSN: 1799-8972 |
| Publisher | Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.30676/jfas.137821 |
| OpenAlex | W4387484568 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The Dawn of Everything is a general-audience social science book with a mission. In a nutshell, the book argues against evolutionary accounts that view societal development as a trade-off involving increased social complexity, increased social control, and the loss of egalitarian ideals. Since Rousseau's Social Contract, Graeber and Wengrow argue, Western thought has followed a 'myth' which sees inequality and coercion as necessary byproducts of the transition to higher states of civilisation. Laying out a broad array of recent archaeological and classic anthropological evidence, the authors argue that unilineal accounts of world history ignore too much evidence to the contrary to be convincing
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Civilization · Environmental ethics · Inequality · Mythology · Sociology · Classics · History · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · World Systems and Global Transformations
| Highly cited | No |
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