Scholarly Foundations

 

It appears others have noticed ideas presented in the book. Peers of the authors, those who specialized in the study of both past and present human societies, have reviewed and accepted the scholarly research on which much of the book is based.

  • Farewell to the childhood of man: ritual, seasonality, and the origins of inequality

    Wengrow, D. and D. Graeber. (2015)
    Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 21: 597-619

    Honored with the The Biennial Henry Myers Lecture.

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  • Many seasons ago: slavery and its rejection on the Pacific Coast of North America

    Wengrow, D. and D. Graeber (2018)
    American Anthropologist 120 (2): 237-249

    Lead article, with ‘Roundtable’ discussion with leading experts, and responses by the authors

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  • Cities before the State in early Eurasia

    Wengrow, D. (2015)
    Halle: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (stand alone publication)

    The Jack Goody Lecture

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  • The origins of civic life: a global perspective

    Wengrow, D. (2019)
    Origini XLII: 25-44

    Thematic issue, edited by Marcella Frangipane, in honour of Robert McCormick Adams: Rethinking Urbanisation and its Living Landscapes

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  • Culture as creative refusal

    Graeber, D. (2013)
    The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 31(2), 1-19

    The Marilyn Strathern Lecture

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