It's a political book. Graeber, an self-described anarchist, looks through the archeological record for evidence that non-hierarchical societies existed succes

It's a political book. Graeber, an self-described anarchist, looks through the archeological record for evidence that non-hierarchical societies existed successfully. Everyone in that political area calls him a "genius" because he offers them a rich trove of new "evidence" to support their modern politics. It's an inconvenient truth that the experts in these individual fields don't agree with his conclusions.