A late reply, Chris, but I can strongly recommend "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber, sadly no longer with us. So much of the storytelling we do is court history, written to glorify the way things are as the ONLY way they could be. Graeber takes that apart with real history.
A late reply, Chris, but I can strongly recommend "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber, sadly no longer with us. So much of the storytelling we do is court history, written to glorify the way things are as the ONLY way they could be. Graeber takes that apart with real history.
Thank you Tom. I just added Graeber's TDOE to my list of recommended books. I was reading about Graeber and I saw that he did his doctoral work at the University of Chicago. I have an outsized level of regard for U of C anthropologists (and U of C pretty much anything). I appreciate the recommendation.
A late reply, Chris, but I can strongly recommend "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber, sadly no longer with us. So much of the storytelling we do is court history, written to glorify the way things are as the ONLY way they could be. Graeber takes that apart with real history.
Thank you Tom. I just added Graeber's TDOE to my list of recommended books. I was reading about Graeber and I saw that he did his doctoral work at the University of Chicago. I have an outsized level of regard for U of C anthropologists (and U of C pretty much anything). I appreciate the recommendation.