“Every crease is a story.”

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1961–2020
**David Rolfe Graeber** (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author known for his books *Debt: The First 5000 Years* (2011), *The Utopia of Rules* (2015) and *Bullshit Jobs: A Theory* (2018). He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.
As an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale from 1998–2007 he specialised in theories of value and social theory. The university's decision not to rehire him when he would otherwise have become eligible for tenure sparked an academic controversy, and a petition with more than 4,500 signatures. He went on to become, from 2007–13, Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. (Source)
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Debt
David Graeber, 2011

Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber, 2018

The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber & David Wengrow, 2021

The Utopia of Rules
David Graeber, 2015

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
David Graeber, 2004

The Democracy Project
David Graeber, 2012

Why Work?
David Graeber, Clifford Harper & others, 2018

Pirate Enlightenment
David Graeber, 2023

Direct Action
David Graeber, 2009

On Kings
Marshall Sahlins & David Graeber, 2017

Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
David Graeber, 2001

Possibilities
David Graeber, 2007

Revolutions in Reverse
David Graeber, 2011

Der Revolutions-Guide
David Graeber, 2012

Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking
David Graeber, 2020

Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World ...
David Graeber, 2024

Lost People
David Graeber, 2007

To Dare Imagining
Murat Bay, Dilar Dirik & others, 2016

99%
David Graeber & Esther Cruz, 2013

Debate. El giro ontológico.
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro & David Graeber, 2019
Chimera Principle
Carlo Severi, Janet Lloyd & others, 2015

La revolución Ignorada
Solidaridad Kurdistán, Gatamaula & others, 2016

Uprisings
Nika Dubrovsky & David Graeber, 2020
Civilization
Abdullah Öcalan, Havin Guneser & others

Cities Made Differently
David Graeber & Nika Dubrovsky, 2024

Constituent Imagination
Stevphen Shukaitis & David Graeber, 2007
Agire altrimenti
Salvo Vaccaro & David Graeber, 2014

Il n'y a jamais eu d'Occident
David Graeber, 2026

(R)evoluční ekonomie o systému a lidech
Tomáš Sedláček, David Graeber & others, 2015
Fire of the Jaguar
Terence S. Turner & David Graeber, 2017

La démocratie aux marges
David Graeber, 2018
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