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How might human beings live according to nature? Is property natural? Is freedom or unfreedom? How can studying human societies in the past inform collective organization in the present? "Origins of Freedom" examines property, nature, and freedom as concepts for understanding the history of human civilization from the deep past until the present. The courses will converge on a recent magnum opus by anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. This book recasts the history of humanity, calling into question assumptions dominant since the European Enlightenment about the modern state, human freedom, and the possibility of alternative social orders. Integrating archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, geography, and political theory this cluster investigates the origins of freedom through lenses of individual, social, and political agency as well as the stories we tell (and the evidence we marshal) to support these views.