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Cuts through centuries of assumed, unquestioned historical narratives like a hot knife through butter. None of this fuckshit was inevitable, we just got stuck - and Graeber/Wengrow show us how many other paths forward there are. An awe-inspiring book that made me tear up in it last chapter. We need a hundred more like it
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Interesting subject but slow and densely written so a bit of a struggle to read.
Truly a masterpiece and a great loss to human knowledge that one of the authors has died since the book was published. And while I think it's fair to say the book is a masterpiece, there are times when they theorize and speculate in the same ways they critique as fantasy by those whose work comes before or who are as committed to seeing states in prehistory as the authors are to non-state prehistory. Having said that, it's a great gift to us that the book recontextualizes so much and brings areas and places outside the conventional prehistorical or early historical places (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China) into the conversation. Moreover, their reassessment of ancient Egypt, in particular what the Intermediate Periods actually were, was insightful.
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Not as riveting as Debt, but still quite interesting.
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