Episodes
Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
The continuation of our conversation about Chapter 4 of The Dawn of Everything: Free People, the Origin of Cultures, and the Advent of Private Property.
Mentioned:
What is Politics? podcast (youtube)
An article by David Wengrow about Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse Netflix series
The Songs of Trees by David George Haskell
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Friday Apr 07, 2023
Friday Apr 07, 2023
Recorded during a windstorm amidst trees falling around the house, the first half of our conversation about Chapter 4: Free People, the Origin of Cultures, and the Advent of Private Property.
Mentioned:
"The Original Affluent Society" by Marshall Sahlins
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Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Unfreezing the Ice Age :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 3
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
Wednesday Mar 22, 2023
In Chapter 3, Graeber & Wengrow use elaborate ice age burials and impressive building projects, along with more recent examples of cultures who changed their social structures according to the seasons, to suggest that perhaps our original political freedom is the freedom to erect and dismantle hierarchies at will.
We're experimenting with including visual timelines to help us keep track of all the history that's included in the book. See the timeline for Chapter 3. (A different presentation of the same timeline, in website form, is here.)
Mentioned in the episode:
"Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything" by Walter Scheidel
Seasonal Variations of the Eskimo, by Marcel Mauss and Henri Beuchat
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Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Bullies, Mothers, and Others :: Anthropology Beyond The Dawn of Everything
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
In this episode we put the book down and explore some anthropology that the Dawn of Everything is at odds with. Take it slow--it's a long one and there's a lot to cover.
Mentioned on the show:
Hierarchy in the Forest by Christopher Boehm
Sarah Hrdy, primatologist and anthropologist
"Gender Egalitarianism Made us Human" by Camilla Power
"Did Communism Make us Human?" by Chris Knight
The Evolution of Beauty by Richard Prum
The First Domestication by Raymond Pierotti and Brandy R. Fogg
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Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wicked Liberty :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 2
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
"Wicked Liberty: The Indigenous Critique and the Myth of Progress", in which we see how indigenous Americans' devastating critique of European society caused a stir when it made its way back to Europe. This one ends on a spicy note--Dave is not happy with how the chapter ends.
Mentioned: Chapter 3 of Caliban and the Witch, "Taming the Rebel Body" on how the Age of Enlightenment made way for capitalism.
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Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Farewell to Humanity’s Childhood :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 1
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
We return! In our new season we are reading The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber & David Wengrow, a fascinating and controversial book of anthropology and social theory.
There's enough groundwork laid in Chapter 1 to make this episode a longer one than we're used to releasing. We hope you find it stimulating.
The Dawn of Everything at archive.org
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Thursday Apr 30, 2020
The Witch’s Child :: Bonus Episode
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
Thursday Apr 30, 2020
"...those feelings of anguish and rage are the same itch the seed feels in the last days of Winter, before it bursts open and sends out its buds into the world... Remember this story, and there will be hope for Spring."
First published on Unsettling America.
Audio version originally published by Resonance.
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Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Witches in the New World :: Caliban and the Witch, Chapter 5
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Witch hunting did not end in Europe. In fact it didn't even end. The final chapter of our book.
Mentioned:
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber
The anthropologist Michael Taussig
"Conviction: American Panic" podcast
Janet's essay about finding and connecting with nature anywhere
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Sunday Apr 12, 2020
The Great Witch Hunt, part 2 :: Caliban and the Witch, Chapter 4
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Why were women especially targeted by the Witch Hunt? The continuation of Chapter 4.
Mentioned:
The Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray
The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Ehrenreich and English
Stephany Hoffelt's Domestic Medicine blog
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Friday Apr 03, 2020
The Great Witch Hunt, part 1 :: Caliban and the Witch, Chapter 4
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Arguably the most important chapter of the book. "The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe"
Mentioned:
Malleus Maleficarum or The Hammer of the Witches
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