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Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of "Direct Action" is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent yearsagainst the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City. Written in a clear, accessible style (with a minimum of academic jargon), this study brings readers behind the scenes of a movement that has changed the terms of debate about world power relations. From informal conversations in coffee shops to large spokescouncil planning...

Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit - Was wir alle von den Piraten lernen können

Das Schauspiel sagenumwobener Piraten, ihrer Königreiche, Gräueltaten und anarchistischen Utopien erregte im 18. Jahrhundert in der ganzen Welt Aufsehen. Gerüchte verbreiteten sich wie ein Lauffeuer, schockierten und inspirierten die europäischen Eliten. Piraten und Freibeuter schufen die wirklich revolutionären Ideen für eine offene Weltgemeinschaft. Dieses utopische Potential elektrisierte David Graeber und lässt seine intellektuellen Funken auf seine Leser...

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 sell goods--that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era,...

Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi s "The Chimera Principle" breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples. Setting himself against a tradition that has long seen the memory of people without writing which relies on such ephemeral records as ornaments, body painting, and masks as fundamentally disordered or doomed to failure, he argues strenuously that ritual actions in these societies pragmatically produce religious meaning and that they demonstrate what he calls a chimeric...

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 tasknow more urgent than everof 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...