For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our...
David Graeber und David Wengrow blicken auf die vergangenen 30 000 Jahre zurück und revolutionieren unser Verständnis der Menschheitsgeschichte von Grund auf - mit Folgen bis in unsere Gegenwart und für unsere Zukunft. Spektakuläre...
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolutionâfrom the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequalityâ...
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systemsâto relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? Thereâ...
David Graeber is not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He is also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact...
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about...
In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the worldâs most distinguished...
Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlinsâs Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling...
The groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head-from the "brilliant, deeply original political thinker" David Graeber (Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things to Me...
In bester Tradition der teilnehmenden Beobachtung legt David Graeber hier die erste detaillierte ethnografische Studie der Bewegung für globale Gerechtigkeit vor. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass es keine neutrale, objektive Perspektive gibt, wenn...
Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist for the simple reason...
"If anthropology consists of making the apparently wild thought of others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consummate anthropologist. Not only does he...