The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity
(Playaway)
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Published
Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2021].
Format
Playaway
Edition
Unabridged.
ISBN
9781250860828, 1250860822
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 24 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Status
North Kingstown - Non-fiction Media (Lower Level)
Playaway 901 Wen
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Playaway 901 Wen
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Published
Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2021].
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
ISBN
9781250860828, 1250860822
Notes
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Title from container.
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"Light."
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Previously released by Macmillan Audio, ℗2021.
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Release date supplied by publisher.
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Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
General Note
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Participants/Performers
Read by Mark Williams.
Description
"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 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 dialectic 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 archeology and anthropology, the authors illustrate how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual blinders 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 during all that time? If agriculture and cities did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organizations did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more open to playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume."--,Provided by publisher.
System Details
Playaway Digital Audio.
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North Kingstown - Non-fiction Media (Lower Level) | Playaway 901 Wen | On Shelf |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Graeber, D., Wengrow, D., & Williams, M. (2021). The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity (Unabridged.). Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Graeber, David, D., Wengrow and Mark, Williams. 2021. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Findaway World, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Graeber, David, D., Wengrow and Mark, Williams. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Findaway World, LLC, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Graeber, David,, D. Wengrow, and Mark Williams. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Unabridged., Findaway World, LLC, 2021.
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