Book Club Series: The Dawn of Everything

Event: Book Club Series: The Dawn of Everything

Date: Tuesday, March 2 from 10-11am
(1st of 5 week series)

Location: yellow Munger Barn

Register: Free and open to all, but please register here

Description:

Join the History and Archeology Book Club for discussions of The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wenbrow. Maria Trumpler and Jim Powers will lead this 5 week series on Tuesdays in March from 10-11am. The Dawn of Everything examines recent archeological exploration of societies mostly in Europe and the Americas where relative social equity seems to have prevailed. We will reconsider potent myths about the development of agriculture and hierarchical political organization. This informs a bold argument about how the well-developed indigenous societies in what’s now eastern North America shaped emerging European ideals of democracy and freedom in the 17 and 18th centuries.