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Towards the end of Dawn of Everything, Graeber/Wengrow talk about how a clan system within tribes allowed individuals to move between tribes. These clan/moiety systems meant that there was always a "family" to be adopted into, and a common frame of reference. The authors posited that these systems evolved partially to resist authoritarian centralization.
What they didn't talk about is the fact that religious communities serve a similar function within the context of the modern nation state...

#periodicrreminder that “The History of Human Civilization” is a roller coaster ride through landscapes of near infinite variety, and that “human nature” is no less varied. Not the fixed “thing” you might think it to be.
From the co-author of the remarkable “The Dawn of Everything.”