Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value pdf

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。

Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value pdf 大卫格雷伯

This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political, and cultural theories of value. David Graeber reexamines a century of anthropological thought about value and exchange, in large measure to find a way out of quandaries in current social theory that have become critical at a time of ideological collapse in the face of Neoliberalism. Rooted in an engaged, dynamic realism, Graeber argues that projects of cultural comparison are necessarily revolutionary projects: He attempts to synthesize the best insights of Karl Marx and Marcel Mauss, who represent two extreme, but ultimately complementary, possibilities in the shape such a project might take. Graeber breathes new life into the classic anthropological texts on exchange, value, and economy. He rethinks the cases of Iroquois wampum, Pacific kula exchanges, and the Kwakiutl potlatch within the flow of world historical process, and recasts value as a model of human meaning-making that far exceeds rationalist/reductive economist paradigms.