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A posthumous collection of essays by the anthropologist and activist David Graeber shows a bold thinker whose original arguments could strain credibility. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...
In David Graeber’s slim posthumous book, Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia, the anthropologist argues that 18th-century pirate society inspired and influenced European Enlightenment ...
David Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and a political activist. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a curated collection of his essays. Like a glitzy museum ...
18th-century map of Madagascar by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. (Getty) The late David Graeber was an anarchist, an activist, and an anthropologist—and a master storyteller. Throughout his career, he ...
Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and social theorist of the highest caliber. He was also a fierce anti-globalization activist who found in the Occupy movement a ...
In his final book, Graeber relates “a story about magic, lies, sea battles, purloined princesses, slave revolts, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms and fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves ...
It is tragic that we will never see a debate on the prehistoric origins of humankind between the late great David Graeber and the vastly over-promoted Yuval Noah Harari, the coffee table reseller ...
David Graeber's last book makes the case. Sam Dean. Sat, January 21, 2023 at 5:28 AM UTC. 5 min read. In a pirate stronghold on the lush eastern shore of Madagascar, the child of a native-born ...