Eye-opening view on early history and its impacts

Very clear abd descriptive explanations, lot of examples. Our view on the past and the present need to change.

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Brilliant

Absolutely brilliant content, excellently read. Graeber could be verbose but it always results in diligently making his point in several contexts.

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Palette cleanser after "Sapiens"

The myths we live by constrain our imagination as to the possible. This book challenges the myth of evolutionary stages of society and negates the pernicious idea that whatever may be wrong with society, we couldn't have the nice things we all want otherwise.

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Utterly transformative

This book is perhaps the single most mind blowing thing I've engaged with in a long while. The systematic dismantling of long held misconceptions about the development of civilization and prehistoric living is something I now consider to have been long overdue.
Amazing work, though I don't particularly like the voice of the narrator. He sounds like a snob.

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An insightful reinterpretation of humanity's past

With references and in depth explanations, this book offers a different picture of what earlier human organization systems really were.
In a world apparently ruled by the wealthy and powerful, this work is simply evidence that another way has been posible.
So is a small light of hope, that tell us from our rich past enlightening our future.
The only down side is that goes way deep in anthropology, so if you are not from that field, could be a little too heavy...

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Irre Interessant - für Menschen mit Willen

Irre Interessant! Leider jedes Kapitel etwas zu umfangreich - es ist zwischen Wissenschaftswälzer und populärem Buch hängen geblieben daher insgesamt zu lang. Man braucht Willen. Man wird aber belohnt - super neue Perspektiven und insgesamt eine Empfehlung - regt sehr zum Denken an.

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A fascinating novel perspective on human history

Graeber and Wengrow synthesise latest scientific findings in anthropology and archeology to argue that one of the key tenets of human history over the last 10000 years was the ability to amend and consciously design social and political structure when needed.
A really wonderful book.

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Anarchists rewriting history

Unreadable, leftist garbage of a book without any actionable ideas for the real world we are living in. The authors are self-proclaimed anarchists and thus cherry-picked and spinned their sources to comply with their ideological worldview, "rewriting" history. Absolutely worthless read, unless you are in a socialist reading club, then go for it.

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Insightful but tedious

The authors surely tell a lot of interesting stories in this book and manage to shift the view of "primitive" or "prehistoric" societies to something that seems to do them more justice.
However, it appears that the authors are caught up in a culture war of sorts, and filled with the desire to hammer home ideological points that are not obvious to those who stand outside of that particular discourse.
This will make the book a joyful read for anyone ideologically aligned with the authors. For anyone else, and I'd include myself in that group, it makes this book almost unbearably tedious to go through.

However, if you make it through the agonizing reiterations of their disdain of modern society and their apparent outrage on the misrepresentation of other societal structures in some academic literature, you can still find insights and views on e.g. hunter gatherer societies that are worthwhile and even inspiring to consider.

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