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cmcrockford's review
5.0
Graphic: War, Genocide, and Colonisation
Moderate: Rape, Religious bigotry, Murder, Sexual violence, and Racism
laurareads87's review against another edition
5.0
Absolutely fantastic. In this wide ranging, ambitious book, "the Davids" pick apart deep seated presumptions underlying much of anthropology and history and demonstrate that not only are these assumptions not aligned with facts, but that they are rooted in ideological commitments that refuse to allow the possibility that ancient ways of organizing societies were the result of deliberation and decision-making. Dismantling assumptions like 'cities that are complex need hierarchies' and 'social development is determined by technology,' the Davids discuss examples of early societies from all over the world as experimenting with how best to live and organize themselves and ask how it is that unlike our ancestors, many of whom lived in societies that oscillated between different political systems seasonally, many of us can barely even imagine alternate forms of social, political, and economic life.
Minor: Confinement, Xenophobia, Sexism, War, Antisemitism, Slavery, Torture, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, and Murder
finn_1312's review
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation and Genocide
Moderate: Slavery and War
Minor: Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Torture, Kidnapping, and Rape
anarchism, archeology, societal organizationka_cam's review
4.5
Moderate: Slavery, Genocide, Colonisation, War, Violence, Sexual violence, Racism, Domestic abuse, Torture, and Misogyny
Minor: Cannibalism, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, and Trafficking
fujo_cat's review against another edition
3.5
It wasn't bad, but after the first initial chapters (which were the most fun and interesting to listen to imo) it gets a bit boring and somewhat repetitive. After 80% completion, I was just glad I was almost finished... Nevertheless, you do learn a lot of cool and interesting stuff!! If you are curious about anthropology and how old tribes and people behave themselves, you should give this a go :)
Graphic: Classism
Moderate: Death
Minor: War
sohva's review against another edition
3.75
Moderate: Colonisation
Minor: Rape, Suicide, Slavery, Animal death, Religious bigotry, Torture, War, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Genocide, and Racism