Reciprocity vs. Empire Mini Course
* Course: The Reciprocity vs. Empire: The Long View Series. Ayni Institute.
URL = https://ayni.institute/modesofexchange/
Description
"This mini-course introduces the ancestral concept of Reciprocity and how this stands in contradiction to two of the most important historical processes of the last 5,000 years: domination through empire and accumulation through capitalism.
This mini-course introduces Reciprocity and its different modalities and scales (individually, communally, between communities, etc.) and provides an orientation to the Long View of history, a methodological perspective that allows one to view the roots of our social problems through historical processes over 5,000 years ago and thus grasp the complexity of our social relations today. Through this introduction to the Long View, viewers get a macro and systematic perspective of the origins of some of our most significant societal issues and how to understand them so that we may begin to transcend them and bring about a more reciprocal world.
The first two modules introduce the concept of Reciprocity and provide an introduction to the Long View of History."