[P2P-F] stonehenge as counterrevolution and the paleolithic sex strike

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks for the reply ... would you have any resources related to the radical
anthropology group?

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Andy Robinson <ldxar1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hiya,
>
> Sims is new to me, but this sounds very similar to Engels' position, and
> also to Zerzan.  Things get very speculative that far back, and most
> anthropologists leave this stuff to archaeologists nowadays, partly because
> of the reflexive turn in anthropology.  The main quibble I'd raise is that,
> while some hunter-gatherer groups are recorded as gender-egalitarian, others
> are not (e.g. Sambia, Guarani, Yanomami), and on the other hand, some
> sedentary pastoralists are gender-egalitarian or tend towards women's power
> (Ladakh, Manipur).  Also, there isn't much evidence for rule by women at any
> point, and the whole transition from ape to man thing is dubious.  We're
> talking transition from extinct early hominids whose social life we know
> next to nothing about; people in the Engelsian tradition (and social
> Darwinists also) extrapolate from chimps (which are patriarchal and
> aggressive), but we're actually more closely related to Bonobos, which are
> also communistic, egalitarian and arguably matriarchal.  Also I'm fairly
> sure the "incest taboo led to intelligence" thing is falsified by animal
> breeding experiments, though I don't know the details.
>
> bw
> Andy
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> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>wrote:
>
>> see
>> http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/old/pub_knight_power_watts_big.pdfand read it with
>> http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/old/pub_knight_power_watts_big.pdf
>>
>> really interesting stuff about the origins of class society and the
>> hunter-gathering to agriculture switch
>>
>> Michel
>>
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