David Rolfe Graeber, Londra merkezli bir antropolog ve anarşist aktivist, belki de en çok 2011 tarihli Borç: İlk 5000 Yıl kitabıyla tanınır. London School of Economics'te Antropoloji Profesörü.
1998-2007 yılları arasında Yale'de yardımcı doçent ve antropoloji doçenti olarak değer ve sosyal teori teorilerinde uzmanlaştı. Üniversitenin, aksi takdirde göreve hak kazanacakken onu yeniden işe almama kararı, akademik bir tartışmaya ve 4.500'den fazla imzalı bir dilekçeye yol açtı. 2007-13 yılları arasında Londra Üniversitesi Goldsmiths'te Sosyal Antropoloji Okuyucusu oldu.
Aktivizmi, 2001'de Quebec City'deki 3. Amerikalar Zirvesi'ne ve New York City'deki 2002 Dünya Ekonomik Forumu'na karşı protestoları içeriyor. Graeber, Wall Street'i İşgal Et hareketinin önde gelen isimlerinden biriydi ve bazen "Biz yüzde 99'uz" sloganını icat etmesiyle tanınır.
Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire kitap pdf oku ve indir David Graeber
“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 accomplish this profound feat, he redoubles it by the critical task—now more urgent than ever—of making the possibilities of other people’s worlds the basis for understanding our own.” —Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago“Graeber’s ideas are rich and wide-ranging; he pushes us to expand the boundaries of what we admit to be possible, or even thinkable.”—Steven Shaviro, Wayne State UniversityIn this new collection, David Graeber revisits questions raised in his popular book, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Written in an unpretentious style that uses accessible and entertaining language to convey complex theoretical ideas, these twelve essays cover a lot of ground, including the origins of capitalism, the history of European table manners, love potions in rural Madagascar, and the phenomenology of giant puppets at street protests. But they’re linked by a clear purpose: to explore the nature of social power and the forms that resistance to it have taken, or might take in the future.Anarchism is currently undergoing a worldwide revival, in many ways replacing Marxism as the theoretical and moral center of new revolutionary social movements. It has, however, left little mark on the academy. While anarchists and other visionaries have turned to anthropology for ideas and inspiration, anthropologists are reluctant to enter into serious dialogue. David Graeber is not. These essays, spanning almost twenty years, show how scholarly concerns can be of use to radical social movements, and how the perspectives of such movements shed new light on debates within the academy. David Graeber has written for Harper’s Magazine, New Left Review, and numerous scholarly journals. He is the author or editor of four books and currently lives in New York City.