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Jiang introduces David Anthony’s The Horse, the Wheel, and Language as a source for explaining Yamnaya dominance and their mythology of violence, struggle, dominance, and conquest.
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Jiang introduces David Anthony’s The Horse, the Wheel, and Language as a source for explaining Yamnaya dominance and their mythology of violence, struggle, dominance, and conquest.
"...wonderful book called The Horse, the Wheel, and Language written by David Anthony, who's a Harvard anthropologist. And he explains to us the Inaya..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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