Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

by David Graeber

Overview

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 reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence . . . . But what if they didn't?

This pamphlet ponders what that response would be, and explores the implications of linking anthropology to anarchism. Here, David Graeber invites readers to imagine this discipline that currently only exists in the realm of possibility: anarchist anthropology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781958846001
Publisher:	Prickly Paradigm Press
Publication date:	11/01/2023
Series:	Paradigm ; , #14
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	118
File size:	256 KB

About the Author

David Graeber is an assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University. He has published widely on his research in Madagascar and on anthropological theories of value.

Table of Contents

Section 1
Section 2: Graves, Brown, Mauss, Sorel
Section 3: The anarchist anthropology that almost already does exist
Section 4: Blowing Up Walls
Section 5: Tenets of a Non-existent Science
Section 6
Section 7: Anthropology (in which the author somewhat reluctantly bites the hand that feeds him)