David Graeber
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English
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"A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality-and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation"--
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Melville House
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English
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"Before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods-that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors-which lives on in full force to this day. So says anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom....
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English
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"Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber ... traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice"--Jacket.
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Editorial Ariel
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Durante generaciones hemos visto a nuestros antepasados más remotos como seres primitivos, ingenuos y violentos. Se nos ha dicho que solo era posible alcanzar la civilización sacrificando libertades o domesticando nuestros instintos. En este ensayo, los reconocidos antropólogos David Graeber y David Wengrow demuestran que estas concepciones, que surgieron en el siglo xviii, fueron una reacción conservadora de la sociedad europea ante las críticas...
6) On Kings
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HAU Books
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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In anthropology, as much as in the current popular imagination, kings remain figures of fascination and intrigue. As the cliche goes, kings continue to die spectacular deaths only to remain subjects of vitality and long life. This collection of essays by a teacher and his student — two of the world's most distinguished anthropologists— explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. The divine, the stranger, the...
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Editorial Ariel
Pub. Date
2024
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Español
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La última obra póstuma del coautor del gran bestseller del New York Times El amanecer de todo. Una vibrante historia de reinos piratas y a su vez una brillante incursión en antiguas formas de democracia radical.
¿Y si los piratas no fueron salvajes apátridas movidos por la simple acumulación de riquezas y tesoros? ¿Y si el inicio de nuestra modernidad no hubiera tenido lugar en el corazón de Europa sino en una República pirata del Madagascar...
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English
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Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition : David Graeber's "fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely" (Financial Times) history of debt
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—"a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate" (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs...and their consequences.
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled "On the Phenomenon...
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled "On the Phenomenon...
11) Bullshit jobs
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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" 'Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world?' David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative online essay titled On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs. He defined a bullshit job as 'a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence, even though as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is...
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world--democracy--and the story of how radical democracy can yet transform America. Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution--from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system, one that seems responsive only to the wealthiest among us and leaves most Americans feeling disengaged, voiceless,...
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Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"Filmed over two years in 22 countries, interviewing 21 of the world's leading economists, historians, sociologists and political scientist, it is an ambitious and accessible six-part documentary series that looks at the ideas and social forces that have shaped the capitalist world." --