Sentences with phrase «political machinations required»

I recently read that no group of hunters and gatherers or pastoralists has ever willingly transitioned to settled life, because it makes them easier to control and tax [1], and there is a vivid description of the violence and political machinations required to assert governance on others during creation of the Zulu kingdom in South Africa in Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus» book The Creation of Inequality [2].

I recently read that no group of hunters and gatherers or pastoralists has ever willingly transitioned to settled life, because it makes them easier to control and tax [1], and there is a vivid description of the violence and political machinations required to... [more]