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Drama, Politics, and Evolution - Cliodynamics in Play (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Drama, Politics, and Evolution - Cliodynamics in Play (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
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This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two
million years and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and
other performances that gave voice and legitimacy to various
political regimes in our species' history. Our genetic and cultural
evolution during the Pleistocene Epoch bestowed a wide range of
predispositions on our species that continue to shape the politics
we support and the performances we enjoy. The book's case studies
range from an initiation ritual in the Mbendjela tribe in the Congo
to a 1947 drama by Bertolt Brecht and include a popular puppet play
in Tokugawa Japan. A final section examines the gradual
disintegration of social cohesion underlying the rise of polarized
politics in the USA after 1965, as such films as The Godfather,
Independence Day, The Dark Knight Rises, and Joker accelerated the
nation's slide toward authoritarian Trumpism.
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