'The Dawn of Everything' fundamentally shifted my view of … everything. I had to meet one of the minds behind its world-tilting revelations.
Wengrow and Graeber were devoted to one another as few writing partners are. Their collaboration seems to have been a case of true, the kind of meeting of the minds I associate with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Some of this is explained by similarities in their backgrounds.
Wengrow made it to Oxford in a roundabout way. Having tried to be an actor for a year or two, he thought he’d study English, so he wrote earnest letters to several Oxford colleges to express his lifelong passion for literary studies. When he hit a wall, he canvassed friends about fields of study that might be easier to break into; someone mentioned anthropology and archaeology. He barely knew what these disciplines were, but once again he wrote an earnest letter, this time only to St.
, which argues that civilizations don’t leapfrog from one technological miracle to the next but progress by the gradual transformation of everyday behavior. Having landed in New Orleans for a conference, he was lining up for passport control when a warm, rumpled anthropologist introduced himself: David Graeber. Graeber was impressed by Wengrow’s research on Middle Eastern cylinder seals, which he’d described as an early example of commodity branding.
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