10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow's Dawn of Everything, Chapter 3

Описание: In this episode we cover chapter 3 of David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book The Dawn of Everything, and we investigate the authors’ claims that human inequality has no origins based on archeology from upper paleolithic europe.

In doing so we also look at the difference between dominance hierarchy and democratic hierarchy, and what the necessary criteria are in order to establish a dominance hierarchy.

We also discover that Graeber & Wengrow actually have no arguments for why human inequality supposedly has no origins!


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00:00 Introduction
1:35 Dominance hierarchy vs democratic hierarchy
5:46 The “ingredients” of dominance hierarchy
9:40 Human origins debates: right vs left
15:21 Current egalitarian origins theories: Christopher Boehm’s Hierarchy in the Forest
19:55 Current egalitarian origins theories: Sarah Hrdy’s Mothers and Others
22:26 Craniometry: Graeber & Wengrow’s main argument against egalitarian origins
25:36 Do we know anything about social structure before 40,000 BC?
29:03 Why Graeber & Wengrow’s craniometry and bad materialist arguments are incorrect
33:07 Graeber & Wengrow’s correct materialist explanation for the upper paleolithic european cultural efflorescence
34:58 Graeber & Wengrow skip the entire period of human origins and then make a mess of Upper Paleolithic Europe
42:47 Graeber & Wengrow mangle Christopher Boehm and turn him into a Muppet
47:13 Graeber & Wengrow think we’re all mindless children unless we explore dominance hierarchy!
52:51 Why there most likely wasn’t much hierarchy until the end of the palaeolithic
56:42 The rich burials of upper paleolithic europe
58:13 Palaeolithic monumental architecture? Gobleki Tepe
59:08 Palaeolithic monumental architecture? Mammoth Houses
1:00:05 Why Graeber & Wengrow are incapable of making any real arguments for hierarchy in the palaeolithic
1:05:03 The politics of chimpanzee politics
1:09:08 The end: gimme money, tell Matt Christman