Problem: Please find specific three similarities between either the particular facts or the overall argument that James C. Scott makes in the lecture "A Short Account of the Deep History of State Evasion" and that of our buddies Graeber and Wengrow in chapter 11. Please be sure to mention, either as a part of your similarities or in addition, all three of the following:
- dreams
- "maroons" (escaped formerly enslaved people).
- Why rice (or wheat or corn) is easier than tubers (like cassava or potatoes) for a state to control
Please explain what the Hegelian, dialectic view of change is, and how it applies to Graeber and Wengrow's ideas about social change. How is this different from an idea of history which is cumulative, progressive, and linear, i.e. Always moving bit by bit toward some goal?