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    Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
    Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
    Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
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    Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

    By David Graeber

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    Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence . . . . But what if they didn't?

    This pamphlet ponders what that response would be, and explores the implications of linking anthropology to anarchism. Here, David Graeber invites readers to imagine this discipline that currently only exists in the realm of possibility: anarchist anthropology.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrickly Paradigm Press
    Release dateNov 1, 2023
    ISBN9781958846001
    Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
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    David Graeber

    David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, among many others books, and coauthor with David Wengrow of the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. An iconic thinker and a renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.

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