The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow

This book’s full title is The Dawn of Everything: A new History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. This is an absolute terrific book. Graeber looks at the world very differently. You cannot help but learn from him.

An interesting story in this book is about the first contact Europeans had with people of the Americas. The people of Americas ran their societies differently than the Europeans. The authors talk about how discussions with people of the Americas, especially around the great lakes, affected and maybe prompted the European Enlightenment age. An interesting person they talk about is Kandiaronk, a Huron-Wendat chief.

This is an absolutely fascinating book to read, no matter what political persuasion you have. I have always found anthropology and archology interesting and often fascinating. I sure people into sociology will also love this book. I took a course once in sociology in U of T. I found it boring and depressing. It was all about how horrible things are and what was wrong with the world. Yes, our society is not perfect and there are better ways of doing somethings, but it seems to me that socialism leads to dictatorships. Example currently is Venezuela. I guess that is politically wrong and I may have to remove this sentence

David Priestland on the Guardian writes an interest review of this book. There is an interesting review of this book by Rob Henderson on Substack.

Four Minute Books coving this book is interesting but a lot of advertising for such a short review. See review here. David Wengrow speaks at British Library. See Four Minute Books on YouTube and it is an interesting summary. Democracy now interviews David Wengrow on YouTube.

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