David Graeber
American anthropologist
David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn ... Wikipedia
Born: February 12, 1961, New York
Died: September 2, 2020 (age 59 years), Venice, Italy
Influenced by: Marshall Sahlins, Karl Polanyi, and Edmund Leach
Parents: Ruth Rubinstein and Kenneth Graeber
Alma mater: State University of New York at Purchase (BA); University of Chicago (MA, PhD)
Awards: Bread and Roses Award; Bateson Book Prize
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David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The ...
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Jan 20, 2024 · As I argue in my book Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory (2008), state power rests on violence and coercion; ...
The first book I wrote was Lost People, an ethnography of Betafo (Arivonimamo), a community in Madagascar divided between descendants of nobles and slaves, and ...
I'm an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such. I see anarchism as something you do not an identity so don't call me the anarchist anthropologist.
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Sep 4, 2020 · David Graeber, Caustic Critic of Inequality, Is Dead at 59. He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of ...
Mar 21, 2015 · The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase 'We are the 99%', talks to Stuart Jeffries about 'bullshit jobs', our rule-bound lives and the ...
The David Graeber Institute provides a platform for projects related both directly to David Graeber's legacy, developing his ideas and for projects that will ...
David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist. On June 15, 2007, Graeber accepted the offer of a lectureship in the anthropology ...
David Rolfe Graeber is a London-based anthropologist and anarchist... Read full bio. Most popular. Best Seller. Cultural Anthropology.