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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States is a 2017 book by James C. Scott that sets out to undermine what he calls the "standard civilizational narrative" that suggests humans chose to live settled lives based on intensive agriculture because this made people safer and more prosperous. [1]
James Campbell Scott (December 2, 1936 – July 19, 2024) was an American political scientist and anthropologist specializing in comparative politics. He was a comparative scholar of agrarian and non-state societies.
Against the Grain or À rebours, an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans; Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, a 2017 book by James C. Scott; Against the Grain: An Autobiography, a 1990 book by Boris Yeltsin; Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, a 2004 book by Richard Manning
Scott wrote about the ways people resist authority—and the unmapped territories where much of that resistance takes place. What James C. Scott Taught Us About Liberty, Authority, Surveillance ...
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Ridley Scott Associates has hired Anna Murphy as its first creative director for unscripted. Murphy, who joins from Oscar-winning production company Grain Media, will work alongside global head of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A top U.S. Treasury official will highlight Washington's efforts to facilitate Russian grain and fertilizer exports during a visit to Kenya and Somalia and stress that Moscow ...
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance is a 1985 book on everyday forms of rural class conflict as illustrated in a Malaysian village, written by anthropologist James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press.