The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David WengrowA breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike either free and equal, 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, and

As a counter to the harmful chorus of anti-trans voices

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went on to build a multi-million dollar trucking empire that traversed more than half of the continent

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That would certainly be tomorrow's headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from

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their families together and their communities alive - and often against overwhelming odds

Such renderings of Indigenous lives contrast with the way in which Indigenous women re/present and understand themselves