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Toward an anthropological theory of value: the false coin of our own dreams
- D. Graeber
- Economics
- 2001
This volume 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…
Debt: The First 5000 Years
- D. Graeber
- History, Economics
- 2011
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem…
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
- D. Graeber
- Political Science
- 2013
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…
The new anarchists
- D. Graeber
- Political Science
- 1 February 2002
Is the ‘anti-globalization movement’ anything of the kind? Active resistance is true globalization, David Graeber maintains, and its repertoire of forms is currently coming from the arsenal of a…
Direct Action: An Ethnography
- D. Graeber
- Sociology
- 8 October 2009
In the best tradition of participant-observation, anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. Starting from the assumption that, when…
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
- D. Graeber
- Art
- 2004
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be…
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
- D. Graeber
- Economics
- 2002
tive, both Formalists and Substantivists had entirely missed the point, because all their debates had been about distribution and exchange. To understand a society, they argued, one must first of all…
It is value that brings universes into being
- D. Graeber
- Philosophy, Political ScienceHAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- 1 June 2013
Any theoretical term is an implicit statement about human nature. Anthropologiststend to be uncomfortable with this fact but it is nonetheless true. Even if one were to make a statement as apparently…
Effectiveness and cost of olanzapine and haloperidol in the treatment of schizophrenia: a randomized controlled trial.
- R. Rosenheck, D. Perlick, V. Smith-Gamble
- Psychology, MedicineJAMA
- 26 November 2003
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Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar
- D. Graeber
- Sociology
- 2007
Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeber arrived for fieldwork at the height of tensions…
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