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A mobile sheep/goat-raising lifeway contrasted with settled agriculture; Jiang says it is freer and harder for rulers to control.
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pastoral
A mobile sheep/goat-raising lifeway contrasted with settled agriculture; Jiang says it is freer and harder for rulers to control.
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"...in the green you have agriculture but in the red it's pastoral. Meaning it's you're raising animals sheeps, goats you're going all over the..."
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"now is they're going to create these mythologies to convince people to give up the free happy lifestyle of pastoralists and become an enslaved..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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