The Dawn of Everything

书名：The Dawn of EverythingANewHistoryofHumanity
作者：DavidGraeber/DavidWengrow/大卫·格雷伯
译者：
ISBN：9780374157357
出版社：Farrar,StrausandGiroux
出版时间：2021-10-19
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：704
豆瓣评分： 8.4

书籍简介：

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality–and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike–either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of the state? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

作者简介：

David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and was a contributor to Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, and The Baffler. An iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.

David Wengrow is a professor of comparative archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and has been a visiting professor at New York University. He is the author of three books, including What Makes Civilization?. Wengrow conducts archaeological fieldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East.

书友短评：

@ califlo 3.5 Took me a long time to finish it but I did. It was eye opening how wrong some established theories in the field of anthropology are. But overall the book was boring as hell. I’m just not that concerned with the subject matter. @ 小龙虾 仰之弥高。第1、2章质疑了我们持有的许多“基本问题”，并且指出启蒙时代关于“自由”“公平”的讨论很多来自indigenous critique。第3章主要探讨人自由聚集和离开统治的政治灵活性。第4章探讨经济决定论的错谬，狩猎采集者也能形成大型社会，神圣与私有财产形成的关系。第5章探讨了文化圈，schimogenesis对政治形态的塑造。第6、7章针对农业，农作物“奴役”人们培育，但人们也以play farming对待，只有在贫困之地才发展农业；农业产生并不必然导致等级制。第8、9章探讨了多个古代城市，城市出现并不意味等级制和王权，城市也可有共识形成的民主议会与平等的福利制度。第10章探讨了统治的三要素：至上权力、知识（管理）和个人魅力；第一/第二秩序政权。第11章论述了原住民批判的历史来源。 @ 周北冥 实在没有什么让人觉得很revolutionary的东西 这种说人类文明发展不是线性进化不应该挺cliche了吗 论据有些乱七八糟 几万年前的考古遗迹和十七世纪美洲原住民能拿到一起来证明同一个事儿吗 还有就是篇幅实在大可不必 @ ArnoldLi 重新发现：state of nature 的含义 @ 鼠斩车田万齐 这种书像我这样的一般读者真的读读精要就好了（暂时没有），观点确实有趣，也是颠覆性的，但冗长的论述读起来太痛苦（尽管作者声称已经精简了三分之二），经常读着读着就忘了作者到底要讲什么。 @ 朝彻彻 补，非线性啊多样性啊呱啦呱啦的

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