David Graeber
David Graeber · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Anthropologist of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and intellectual voice of Occupy Wall Street
12 février 1961, New York, États-Unis — 2 septembre 2020, Venise, Italie
New York, New Haven, Londres
David Graeber is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Anthropologist of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and intellectual voice of Occupy Wall Street
Origins and early life
David Graeber was born on 12 February 1961 in New York, 'the son of working-class Jewish parents', as The Guardian's obituary put it. His mother, Ruth Rubinstein, born into a family of Polish Jews who had emigrated in the 1920s, was a garment worker of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union who in the 1930s played the lead in the union's Broadway revue Pins and Needles; his father, Kenneth Graeber, of non-Jewish German descent, had fought in the Spanish Civil War — and this fiche records what Wikipedia's sourced account records, that Ruth's parents disowned her for marrying outside the community. Graeber figures in this directory by that Jewish mother.
Later years
He became one of the most read anthropologists of his time: after fieldwork in Madagascar and a contested departure from Yale, he taught at Goldsmiths and the London School of Economics and wrote Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), a history of money and obligation that became a bestseller, then Bullshit Jobs and, with David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything (2021), published after his death. An anarchist activist, he was among the organizers of Occupy Wall Street in 2011 and is credited with the slogan 'We are the 99%'. He died suddenly in Venice on 2 September 2020, at fifty-nine.
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/06/david-graeber-obituary
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Anthropologist of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and intellectual voice of Occupy Wall Street
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/06/david-graeber-obituary
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