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A review by _bb
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
2.0
I wanted to like this more than I did, though there were parts I enjoyed. On the whole there are some important ideas and ways of re-examining history in it that I'm glad to have been exposed to.
I wasn't as into the swamp of intellectual jargon (it reads like a academic thesis.. was it one?), the flimsy arguments and hand-waving conclusions, the selective omission of relevant contradictory evidence (such as: blaming hunger/etc during the ~1500's - ~1700's only on early capitalism and enclosure of the commons without ever mentioning the substantial impact on food production caused by the Little Ice Age during the same time period).
As a result, the book comes across as a deep yet narrowly researched dive on the topics it covers.
I wasn't as into the swamp of intellectual jargon (it reads like a academic thesis.. was it one?), the flimsy arguments and hand-waving conclusions, the selective omission of relevant contradictory evidence (such as: blaming hunger/etc during the ~1500's - ~1700's only on early capitalism and enclosure of the commons without ever mentioning the substantial impact on food production caused by the Little Ice Age during the same time period).
As a result, the book comes across as a deep yet narrowly researched dive on the topics it covers.