Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

Name: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
ISBN: 0972819649

by David Graeber · first published 1900

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Short, accessible essays outlining human social systems outside capitalism, with original anthropological thinking; suits readers wanting an introduction to Graeber's ideas before reading Debt.

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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is one of a series of pamphlets published by Prickly Paradigm Press in 2004. With the essay, anthropologist David Graeber attempts to outline areas of research that intellectuals might explore in creating a cohesive body of anarchist social theory.

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tosser0001 · Sep 3, 2020 · Recommends

This was the first thing I had ever read by him about the time of the Yale controversy. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004): http://abahlali.org/files/Graeber.pdf It struck me as some really original thinking
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throw_away · Jul 23, 2021 · Recommends

His Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is good and short and findable on the internet as PDF if you're looking for an amuse bouche of Graeber's ideas before tackling Debt
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abdullahkhalids · Dec 4, 2022 · Recommends

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. David Graeber
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marmaduke · Sep 3, 2020 · Recommends

buy and read Debt: the first 5000 years. It is an eye opening perspective on world history. His Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is also one I always wished to read a follow up on.
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danharaj · Oct 27, 2017 · Recommends

…the practice of Moka exchange in parts of Papua New Guinea [0]. Other examples abound in anthropology. A light read that specifically tries to outline systems of human existence outside of capitalism is Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology [1]. But what Marx would have been very familiar with because it had only recently been abolished is the commons that was used by peasants for thousands of years before the early capitalist states completed…
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SyzygistSix · Jun 5, 2021 · Mentions

…been used by people who question the very basis of modern economics and markets. For example, Sahlins' work was referenced extensively in Bob Black's essay The Abolition of Work. And Graeber published Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. From that perspective, the idea that the Economist is on the left is a bit simplistic and not very relevant.
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wz1000 · Sep 5, 2020 · Mentions

Interesting you pick on any mention of Foucault as giving away ideological leanings, since, incidentally, Graeber was not a big fan. From "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology": > Academics love Michel Foucault’s argument that identifies knowledge and power, and insists that brute force is no longer a major factor in social control. They love it because it flatters them: the…
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AftHurrahWinch · Sep 24, 2020 · Mentions

Graeber, the anarchist anthropologist who coined the phrase "we are the 99%" and wrote Debt: The First 5000 Years talks about the idea of revolutionary non-confrontation in Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. One of the ideas he discusses is intentionally keeping your literacy low and your population itinerant. "...under the French, administrators would complain that they could send delegations to arrange…
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