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Bonus 🧵(4a?) for #TheDawnOfEverything aka #Theteatimeofeverything on @davidgraeber and @davidwengrow 's notion of ritual 'property'. See what they mean first, then a case study with the Hadza!
So G + W have section end ch.4, pp. 156-163, on ritual 'property' and the sacred, where property refers not only to things, but to knowledge, secrets, songs, dances... absolutely fine, these were often the most valued 'property' that people had to pay (in some way) to access
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And in their interesting accounts of North American h-g monumental sites, they suggest these were likely gathering places for dissemination of such ritual knowledge (likely within very bounded gender initiation groups).
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🧵No.4 on Ch.4, immediate return, James Woodburn, yay-they-agree-on-deep-rooted human aversion to dominance (thanks guys!)🥰 And getting stuck, plus ritual 'property'. Lots here 1/
🧵No.4 on Ch.4, immediate return, James Woodburn, yay-they-agree-on-deep-rooted human aversion to dominance (thanks guys!)🥰 And getting stuck, plus ritual 'property'. Lots here 1/
Not much to argue with in the 1st part. @davidgraeber and @davidwengrow only refer to Upper Pal again, but we'd strongly agree that the #HumanRevolution in Africa, taking us beyond Africa involved transcontinental chains of connection. We've only got more parochial ever since 2/
@davidgraeber @davidwengrow As they say (pp.124-5), ever-growing parochialism makes getting stuck under domination more likely. Global horizons of free movement prevent that. We'll leave aside quibbles on egalitarianism (NOT 'being the same') and go to James Woodburn, expert of egalitarian societies 3/
