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Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

198 kr

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The GuardianFor 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 in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself.Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we begin to see what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities than we tend to assume.The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action.'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb'The most profound and exciting book I've read in thirty years' Robin D. G. Kelley

The Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

269 kr

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What Makes Civilization?

The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

AvDavid Wengrow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

167 kr

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The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to the ancient Near East? In this updated edition of What Makes Civilization? archaeologist David Wengrow investigates the origins of farming, writing, and cities in ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Egypt, and explores the connections between these two civilizations. It is the story of how people first created kingdoms and monuments to the gods and, just as importantly, how they pioneered everyday practices that we might now take for granted, such as familiar ways of cooking food and keeping the house and body clean. Wengrow asks why these ancient cultures, where so many features of modern life originated, have come to symbolize the remote and the exotic. Today, perhaps more than ever, he argues, the beleaguered cultural heritage of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia stands as a warning for the future. A warning of the sacrifices people will tolerate to preserve their chosen form of life; of the potential for unfettered expansion that exists within any cultural tradition; and of blood perhaps yet to be spilled, on the altar of a misguided notion of civilization.

What Makes Civilization?

The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West

AvDavid Wengrow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

500 kr

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In What Makes Civilization?, archaeologist David Wengrow provides a vivid new account of the 'birth of civilization' in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (today's Iraq). These two regions, where many foundations of modern life were laid, are usually treated in isolation. Now, they are brought together within a unified history of how people first created cities, kingdoms, and monumental temples to the gods. But civilization, as Wengrow shows, is not only about such grand monuments. Just as importantly, it is also about the ordinary but fundamental practices of everyday life that we might take for granted, such as cooking food and keeping the house and body clean.Tracing the development of such practices, from prehistoric times to the age of the pyramids, the book reveals unsuspected connections between distant regions, and provides new insights into the workings of societies we have come to regard as remote from our own. It also forces us to recognize that civilizations are not formed in isolation, but through the mixing and borrowing of culture between societies.The book concludes by drawing telling parallels between the ancient Near East and more recent attempts at reshaping the world order to an ideal image. Are the sacrifices we now make in the name of 'our' civilization really so different from those once made on the altars of the gods?

The Archaeology of Early Egypt

Social Transformations in North-East Africa, c.10,000 to 2,650 BC

AvDavid Wengrow

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

600 kr

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In this authoritative and compelling 2006 survey of the archaeology of early Egypt, David Wengrow offers an interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynastic state, c.10,000 to 2,650 BC. Exploring key themes such as the nature of state power, kingship and the inception of writing, Wengrow illuminates prehistoric social development along the Nile through comparison with neighbouring regions. Detailed analysis of the archaeological record reveals the interplay between large-scale processes of economic and political change and intimate material practices through which social identities were transformed, focussing upon ritual treatments of the dead. Employing rich empirical data and engaging critically with anthropological theory and the history of archaeological thought, Wengrow's work challenges the theoretical isolation of Egyptian prehistory and breaches the methodological boundaries that separate prehistory from Egyptology. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in ancient Egyptian civilisation or early state formation.

Origins of Monsters

Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

AvDavid Wengrow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

462 kr

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It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it was with the rise of cities, elites, and cosmopolitan trade networks that "monsters" became widespread features of visual production in the ancient world. Showing how these fantastic images originated and how they were transmitted, David Wengrow identifies patterns in the records of human image-making and embarks on a search for connections between mind and culture. Wengrow asks: Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced by institutions and technologies? Wengrow considers the work of art in the first age of mechanical reproduction, which he locates in the Middle East, where urban life began.Comparing the development and spread of fantastic imagery across a range of prehistoric and ancient societies, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and China, he explores how the visual imagination has been shaped by a complex mixture of historical and universal factors. Examining the reasons behind the dissemination of monstrous imagery in ancient states and empires, The Origins of Monsters sheds light on the relationship between culture and cognition.

Origins of Monsters

Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction

AvDavid Wengrow

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

396 kr

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It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and isolated in the art of the prehistoric era. Instead it was with the rise of cities, elites, and cosmopolitan trade networks that "monsters" became widespread features of visual production in the ancient world. Showing how these fantastic images originated and how they were transmitted, David Wengrow identifies patterns in the records of human image-making and embarks on a search for connections between mind and culture.Wengrow asks: Can cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced by institutions and technologies? Wengrow considers the work of art in the first age of mechanical reproduction, which he locates in the Middle East, where urban life began. Comparing the development and spread of fantastic imagery across a range of prehistoric and ancient societies, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and China, he explores how the visual imagination has been shaped by a complex mixture of historical and universal factors.Examining the reasons behind the dissemination of monstrous imagery in ancient states and empires, The Origins of Monsters sheds light on the relationship between culture and cognition.

Cultures of Commodity Branding

AvAndrew Bevan,David Wengrow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

2 337 kr

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Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, and can be found in various permutations in places as diverse as the Bronze Age Mediterranean and Early Modern Europe. What the contributions in this volume also vividly document, both in past social contexts and recent ones as diverse as the kingdoms of Cameroon, Socialist Hungary or online eBay auctions, is the need to understand branded commodities as part of a broader continuum with techniques of gift-giving, ritual, and sacrifice. Bringing together the work of cultural anthropologists and archaeologists, this volume obliges specialists in marketing and economics to reassess the relationship between branding and capitalism, as well as adding an important new concept to the work of economic anthropologists and archaeologists.

Cultures of Commodity Branding

AvAndrew Bevan,David Wengrow

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

713 kr

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Anfänge

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Häftad, Tyska, 2024

182 kr

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Anfänge

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Inbunden, Tyska, 2022

305 kr

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Was ist Zivilisation?

AvDavid Wengrow

Inbunden, Tyska, 2023

276 kr

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Pre-Architectures

AvSilvia Franceschini,Nikolaus Hirschm. fl.

Häftad, Medelnederländska

150 kr

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El Amanecer de Todo: Una Nueva Historia de la Humanidad / The Dawn of Everything

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Häftad, Spanska, 2023

329 kr

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Början på allt : en ny historia om mänskligheten

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

252 kr

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David Graebers och David Wengrows storverk The Dawn of Everything i svensk översättning med titeln Början på allt : En ny historia om mänskligheten. Det är en bok som i grunden förändrar vår förståelse för människans historia och samtidigt presenterar visionära idéer om frihet och framtidens samhällen.

I generationer har vi betraktat människans avlägsna förfäder som barnsliga eller primitiva. Vi ser dem antingen som fria, jämlika och oskuldsfulla primater, eller som tjuvaktiga och krigiska bestar. Vi har fått lära oss att civilisationen bara kunde uppstå genom att vi gav upp vår ursprungliga frihet och tämjde våra barbariska instinkter.

Graeber och Wengrow visar oss att detta är fel. Det vi länge tagit för givna sanningar om människan har rötterna i 1700-talets konservativa motreaktion mot upplysningens kritik av det europeiska samhället. Ändå formar de fortfarande vår historiesyn, och leder till felslut om hur jordbruk, privat egendom, städer, demokrati, slaveri och vår civilisation egentligen uppstod.

Början på allt är ett verk med imponerande intellektuell spännvidd, präglat av nyfikenhet och övertygelsen om kraften i att våga förändra.

David Graeber var professor i antropologi vid London School of Economics och författare av de bästsäljande böckerna Debt och Bullshit Jobs. Han var erkänd som en ikonisk tänkare och politisk aktivist samt en av ledargestalterna inom Occupy Wall Street-rörelsen. David Graeber avled den 2 september 2020.

David Wengrow är professor i arkeologi vid University College London samt gästprofessor vid New York University. Han är författare till ett flertal böcker som utforskar den mänskliga civilisationen och bedriver arkeologiska utgrävningar i såväl Västafrika som Mellanöstern.

Sagt om boken

"... en världsomspännande genomgång av den forskning som de senaste decennierna visat sig ställa de flesta enkelspåriga utvecklingsmyter på huvudet, men som de flesta av oss trots det knappt hört talas om." Dan Jönsson, Dagens Nyheter

"Jag känner mig darrig. Och förvirrad. Och upplyst. På en och samma gång." Sigge Eklund

"... först och främst en uppgörelse med den etablerade civilisationsberättelsen, driven av genuin nyfikenhet och orienterad i den kunskap som faktiskt producerats av arkeologer och antropologer. Den kommer att läsas och läsas om i många år framöver." Rasmus Fleischer, Flamman

"Det är en fantastiskt storslagen bok som utmanar de etablerade uppfattningarna om hur civilisationen uppstod och mänskligheten utvecklades." BTJ, som ger Början på allt 5 av 5 i betyg

"Väldigt fin." Lasse Berg, författare till Kalahari-serien och Ändå inte försvunnen om sorg tröst och att vara människa.

"En fascinerande bok som får oss att omvärdera människans förmågor och vår historias stoltaste ögonblick. Boken är såväl utmanande som upplysande." Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus i lingvistik vid MIT och ansedd som den moderna lingvistikens fader.

"Det här är inte bara en bok, utan en intellektuell läsfest. Det finns knappast ett kapitel som inte utmanar akademins ingrodda föreställningar. Den är djup, avslappnat ikonoklastisk, faktamässigt rigorös och njutbar att läsa." Nassim Nicholas Taleb, professor i ekonomi och författare till globala bästsäljare som The Black Swan och Skin in the game.

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David Wengrow – författare

Dawn of Everything

The Dawn of Everything

What Makes Civilization?

What Makes Civilization?

The Archaeology of Early Egypt

Origins of Monsters

Origins of Monsters

Cultures of Commodity Branding

Cultures of Commodity Branding

Anfänge

Anfänge

Was ist Zivilisation?

Pre-Architectures

El Amanecer de Todo: Una Nueva Historia de la Humanidad / The Dawn of Everything

Början på allt : en ny historia om mänskligheten

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