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Drama, Politics, and Evolution

Part of the Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-81377-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-81376-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Oct 25, 2021

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Genes, Culture, and History in Coevolution

McConachie, Bruce

Pages: 3 –27

[This chapter summarizes the basics of the individual and collective coevolution of genetics and culture for Homo sapiens. It argues that the evolutionary process established statistical universal predilections for our human political nature in the areas of authority, equality, homophily, and...
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Ritual and Dramatic Performatives in History

McConachie, Bruce

Pages: 29 –60

[This chapter introduces Seshat, a world history data bank established for cliodynamic analysis, and anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse, whose work on rituals, social cohesion, and cultural complexity has facilitated Turchin’s Seshat investigations. According to Whitehouse and others, all rituals...
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Coevolution in the Pleistocene

McConachie, Bruce

Pages: 63 –91

[During the Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million to 13,000 years ago), hominin culture surpassed genetics as the primary driver of the coevolution of our genus and species. According to Henrich and others, this process began with anatomical changes and better tools that led to cooperation in childcare...
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Destructive Creation in World History, 9000 BCE–1700

McConachie, Bruce

Pages: 93 –126

[Turchin coined the term “destructive creation” to underline the causal importance of warfare in creating increasingly complex societies after the transition from hunter-gatherer bands to agricultural settlements. Along with the existential threat of war came the invention of private property,...
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Capitalism, Tribalism, and Democracy, 1500–1960

McConachie, Bruce

Pages: 127 –163

[Together with print culture, the Protestant Reformation broke the hold of Catholicism on the western European imagination, preparing the way for “enlightened” reason. Despite its embrace of natural equality, the enlightenment qualified egalitarianism along racial and gendered lines. Nonetheless,...
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Postwar Hegemony and the Reagan Reversal, 1945–1985

McConachie, Bruce

Pages: 169 –192

[The US rose quickly to become the hegemonic world power after 1945. Its military might was unchallenged, its control of cheap energy, food, and raw materials unsurpassed, and its international political effectiveness unrivaled. The domestic consequences of its world power, however, began to...
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Neoliberalism and Political Realignment, 1980–2015

McConachie, Bruce

Pages: 193 –225

[US life under neoliberalism confused the power of economic markets with democracy, powered the rise of an anti-democratic oligarchy, and led some economists to call for radical economic redistribution. The ideology also ignored the structural-historical reality of racism, as was apparent in...
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Neoliberal Politics, Polarized Films, and Authoritarianism, 2000–2020

McConachie, Bruce

Pages: 227 –285

[According to comparativist political scientists Levitsky and Zieblat, extreme polarization has killed several democracies, especially when political leaders overturn democratic norms. This is a major reason for the decline of social cohesion in the US over the last twenty years. In addition,...

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