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Indem es den »Wert« ins Zentrum menschlichen Handelns stellt, ist Die falsche Münze unserer Träume das Gegenstück zu David Graebers Bestseller Schulden. Die ersten 5000 Jahre. Ob in der Anhäufung von Reichtum oder in dessen bewusster Zerstörung, ob altruistisch gewendet, ob als Geschenk oder im Gabentausch: um das, was Wert ausmacht, bilden sich Gesellschaften und Machtbeziehungen. Graeber benennt damit das Kernproblem gegenwärtiger Sozialtheorien, die im Angesicht des Neoliberalismus und der alles dominierenden Marktideologie Schiffbruch erlitten haben. Mit Karl...

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,...

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...

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 attributed to a disastrous communal ordeal two years earlier. As Graeber uncovers the layers of historical, social, and cultural knowledge required to understand this event, he elaborates a new view of power, inequality, and the political role of narrative. Combining theoretical subtlety, a compelling narrative line, and vividly drawn characters, Lost People is a singular contribution to the...