大卫·罗尔夫·格雷伯 (David Rolfe Graeber) 是一位常驻伦敦的人类学家和无政府主义活动家，他最著名的作品可能是他 2011 年的著作《债务：前 5000 年》。 他是伦敦经济学院人类学教授。
1998 年至 2007 年，他在耶鲁大学担任人类学助理教授和副教授，专攻价值理论和社会理论。 大学决定在他有资格获得终身教职时不重新雇用他，这引发了一场学术争议，以及一份有超过 4,500 个签名的请愿书。 2007-13 年，他继续成为伦敦大学金史密斯学院社会人类学的读者。
他的活动包括抗议 2001 年在魁北克市举行的第三届美洲峰会和 2002 年在纽约市举行的世界经济论坛。 格雷伯是占领华尔街运动的领军人物，有时被认为创造了“我们是 99%”的口号。
Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire pdf 大卫格雷伯
“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.