The myth of the "original" human society

 
Graeber / Wengrow 82: "There is no 'original' form of human society. Searching for one can only be a matter of myth-making"
 
"The only thing we can reasonably infer about social organization among our earliest ancestors is that it's likely to have been extraordinarily diverse."
> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #anthropology, #prehistory

> created July 23, 2024 at 7:56:36 PM


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