Talk in Amsterdam about the future of political anthropology
May 2019
Graeber and Wengrow on the Myth of the Stupid Savage
PPA+ Conference
Philosophy, Politics, Anthropology & Allied Disciplines
University of Amsterdam, 15-17 May 2019
Talk by David Graeber and David Wengrow: “The Myth of the Stupid Savage: Rousseau’s Ghost and the Future of Political Anthropology”, touching upon political self-consciousness, human history, small scale egalitarian societies, deformed aristocracy, dual social morphology, work ethic, human rights, French enlightenment, etc