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0180 If David Graeber and David Wengrow’s recent book, subtitled, A New History of Humanity<\/em>, is a breakthrough in postmodern anthropology<\/em>, then it is so because it displays a semitic textual structure<\/em>, instead of a greek textual structure<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These two styles are discussed in An Instructor’s Guide to An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>.  Rather than eliminating possibilities in order to arrive at the most likely correct interpretation, these authors play literary tricks, coupling chapters one and twelve, A:A’, chapters two and eleven, B:B’, and chapters three through nine and chapter ten, C:C’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0182 The semitic structure is A:B:C:C’:B’:A’.  In Comments on David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Book (2021) The Dawn of Everything<\/em> (by Razie Mah, available and smashwords and other e-book venues), the work is discussed in the pattern A:A’, B:B’ and C:C’.  Notably, the bulk of the book covers the last layer, C:C’, and balances seven chapters (three through nine, C) against one chapter (ten, C’).  Chapter ten is twice as long as any other chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0183 Plus, chapter ten stands on its own, allowing me to place an examination in Razie Mah’s blog, with the title Looking at David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Chapter (2021) “Why The State Has No Origin”<\/em>.  If the reader first encounters the blog, the commentary is available.  If the reader first purchases the commentary, then the reader can call the blog to the attention of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0180 If David Graeber and David Wengrow’s recent book, subtitled, A New History of Humanity, is a breakthrough in postmodern anthropology, then it is so because it displays a semitic textual structure, instead of a greek textual structure. 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