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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia: David Graeber Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
David Graeber
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (Paperback): David Graeber, David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (Paperback)
David Graeber, David Wengrow
R654 R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Save R89 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution―from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality―and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike―either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or by taming our baser instincts. In their major New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow fundamentally challenge these assumptions and recast our understanding of human history. We will never again see the past in the same way.

Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, Graeber and Wengrow reveal how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual blinders and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing during all that time? If agriculture and cities did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organizations did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more open to playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

Destined to be a classic, The Dawn of Everything signals a paradigm shift, profoundly transforming our understanding of the human past and making space to imagine new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual and political range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and hopefulness.

Bullshit Jobs - A Theory (Paperback): David Graeber Bullshit Jobs - A Theory (Paperback)
David Graeber
R497 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R63 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Democracy Project - A History, a Crisis, a Movement (Paperback): David Graeber The Democracy Project - A History, a Crisis, a Movement (Paperback)
David Graeber 1
R337 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

From their earliest meetings, activist David Graeber knew that the Occupy Wall Street movement was something different. From small beginnings its demonstrations spread across the world to cities like Cairo, Athens, Barcelona and London and gave a glimpse of a new way. This provocative look at the actions of the 99% asks: why was it so effective? What went right? And what can we all do now to make our world democratic once again? Both a treatise on power and protest and an energetic account of contemporary events, The Democracy Project will change the way you think about politics, and the world.

The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (Paperback): David Graeber, David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (Paperback)
David Graeber, David Wengrow
R527 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R46 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we begin to see what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action. 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb 'The most profound and exciting book I've read in thirty years' Robin D. G. Kelley

The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (Hardcover): David Graeber, David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
David Graeber, David Wengrow
R877 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R151 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Stone Age Economics (Hardcover): Marshall Sahlins Stone Age Economics (Hardcover)
Marshall Sahlins; Foreword by David Graeber
R1,866 Discovery Miles 18 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original "affluent society." Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. A radical study of tribal economies, domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large, Stone Age Economics regards the economy as a category of culture rather than behaviour, in a class with politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence. Sahlins concludes, controversially, that the experiences of those living in subsistence economies may actually have been better, healthier and more fulfilled than the millions enjoying the affluence and luxury afforded by the economics of modern industrialisation and agriculture. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Graeber, London School of Economics.

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia: David Graeber Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
David Graeber
R332 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R32 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land. In this jewel of a book, Graeber offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice by Western revolutionary regimes a century later. Pirate Enlightenment playfully dismantles the central myths of the Enlightenment. In their place comes a story about the magic, sea battles, purloined princesses, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms, fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners and devil worship that lie at the origins of modern freedom.

Mutual Aid - An Illuminated Factor of Evolution (Paperback): Peter Kropotkin Mutual Aid - An Illuminated Factor of Evolution (Paperback)
Peter Kropotkin; Illustrated by N O Bonzo; Introduction by David Graeber
R816 R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Save R84 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Revolutions In Reverse: Essays On Politics, Violence, Art, And Imagination (Paperback): David Graeber Revolutions In Reverse: Essays On Politics, Violence, Art, And Imagination (Paperback)
David Graeber
R476 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R47 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Today's capitalist systems appear to be coming apart - but what is the alternative? In a generation or so, capitalism may no longer exist as it's impossible to maintain perpetual growth on a finite planet. David Graeber explores political strategy, global trade, violence, alienation and creativity looking for a new common sense.

Debt, 10th Anniversary Edition - The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded (Hardcover): David Graeber Debt, 10th Anniversary Edition - The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded (Hardcover)
David Graeber; Introduction by Thomas Piketty
R810 R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Save R113 (14%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paperback, 2nd ed.): David Graeber Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
David Graeber
R303 R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Save R24 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Debt - The First 5000 Years (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): David Graeber Debt - The First 5000 Years (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
David Graeber
R588 R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Before there was money, there was debt
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it.
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that 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, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like "guilt," "sin," and "redemption") derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.
"Debt: The First 5,000 Years "is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history--as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.

Bullshit Jobs - The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It (Paperback): David Graeber Bullshit Jobs - The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
David Graeber 1
R338 R307 Discovery Miles 3 070 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Spectacular and terrifyingly true' - Owen Jones

'Thought-provoking and funny' - The Times

Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it.

In the early twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it.

This book is for anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes 'workshops' should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there might be a better way to run our world.

Stone Age Economics (Paperback): Marshall Sahlins Stone Age Economics (Paperback)
Marshall Sahlins; Foreword by David Graeber
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original "affluent society." Sahlins examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. A radical study of tribal economies, domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large, Stone Age Economics regards the economy as a category of culture rather than behaviour, in a class with politics and religion rather than rationality or prudence. Sahlins concludes, controversially, that the experiences of those living in subsistence economies may actually have been better, healthier and more fulfilled than the millions enjoying the affluence and luxury afforded by the economics of modern industrialisation and agriculture. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by David Graeber, London School of Economics.

Anarchy-In a Manner of Speaking - Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman... Anarchy-In a Manner of Speaking - Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier-Zauberman (Paperback)
David Graeber
R472 R435 Discovery Miles 4 350 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

David Graeber was not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He was also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact on the international left cannot be overstated. Graeber has offered up perhaps the most credible path for exiting capitalism-as much through his writing about debt, bureaucracy, or "bullshit jobs" as through his crucial involvement in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which led to his more-or-less involuntary exile from the American academy. In short, Anarchy-In a Manner of Speaking presents a series of interviews with a first-rate intellectual, a veritable modern hero on the order of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Linus Torvald, Aaron Swartz, and Elon Musk. Interviewers Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman asked Graeber not only about the history of anarchy, but also about its contemporary relevance and future. Their conversation also explores the ties between anthropology and anarchism, and the traces of its DNA in the Occupy Wall Street and Yellow Vest movements. Finally, Graeber discussed the meaning of anarchist ethics-not only in the political realm, but also in terms of art, love, sexuality, and more. With astonishing humor, verve, and erudition, this book redefines the contours of what could be (in the words of Peter Kropotkin) "anarchist morality" today.

Mutual Aid - An Illuminated Factor of Evolution (Hardcover): Peter Kropotkin Mutual Aid - An Illuminated Factor of Evolution (Hardcover)
Peter Kropotkin; Illustrated by N O Bonzo; Introduction by David Graeber, Andrej Grubacic; Foreword by Ruth Kinna; Afterword by …
R1,585 Discovery Miles 15 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback): David Graeber Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
David Graeber
R702 R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Save R81 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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 years-against the Summit of the Americas in QuA(c)bec 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 meetings and tear gas-drenched street actions, Graeber paints a vivid and fascinating picture.

Along the way, he addresses matters of deep interest to anthropologists: meeting structure and process, language, symbolism and representation, the specific rituals of activist culture, and much more. Starting from the assumption that, when dealing with possibilities of global transformation and emerging political forms, a disinterested, "objective" perspective is impossible, Graeber writes as both scholar and activist. At the same time, his experiment in the application of ethnographic methods to important ongoing political events is a serious and unique contribution to the field of anthropology, as well as an inquiry into anthropology's political implications.

David Graeber is an anthropologist and activist who teaches at the University of London. Active in numerous direct-action political organizations, he has written for "Harper's Magazine" and is the author of "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology," "Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value," and "Possibilities."

Possibilities - Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire (Paperback): David Graeber Possibilities - Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion and Desire (Paperback)
David Graeber
R475 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

David Graeber here applies anthropological theory to capitalism and its opponents. His analysis uses case studies from such diverse communities as rural Madagascans, pre-capitalist economies and urban international protest groups to tease out the truth about the state we're in.

The Utopia Of Rules - On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Paperback): David Graeber The Utopia Of Rules - On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Paperback)
David Graeber 1
R482 R397 Discovery Miles 3 970 Save R85 (18%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
On Kings (Paperback): Marshall Sahlins, David Graeber On Kings (Paperback)
Marshall Sahlins, David Graeber
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of fascination and intrigue, heroes or tyrants in ways presidents and prime ministers can never be. This collection of essays by two of the world's most distinguished anthropologists--David Graeber and Marshall Sahlins--explores what kingship actually is, historically and anthropologically. As they show, kings are symbols for more than just sovereignty: indeed, the study of kingship offers a unique window into fundamental dilemmas concerning the very nature of power, meaning, and the human condition. Reflecting on issues such as temporality, alterity, and utopia--not to mention the divine, the strange, the numinous, and the bestial--Graeber and Sahlins explore the role of kings as they have existed around the world, from the BaKongo to the Aztec to the Shilluk and beyond. Richly delivered with the wit and sharp analysis characteristic of Graeber and Sahlins, this book opens up new avenues for the anthropological study of this fascinating and ubiquitous political figure.

Constituent Imagination - Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization (Paperback): David Graeber, Erika Biddle, Stevphen... Constituent Imagination - Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization (Paperback)
David Graeber, Erika Biddle, Stevphen Shukaitis
R585 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 20 essays in this book cover a broad range: embedded intellectuals in increasingly corporatised universities, research projects in which factory workers and academics work side by side, revolutionary ethnographies of the Global Justice Movement, and meditations on technology from the branches of a Scottish tree-sit.

The Chimera Principle - An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination (Paperback): Carlo Severi, Janet Lloyd, David Graeber The Chimera Principle - An Anthropology of Memory and Imagination (Paperback)
Carlo Severi, Janet Lloyd, David Graeber
R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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 nonliterate 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" imagination. Deploying philosophical and ethnographic theory, Severi unfolds new approaches to research in the anthropology of ritual and memory, ultimately building a new theory of imagination and an original anthropology of thought. This English-language edition, beautifully translated by Janet Lloyd and complete with a foreword by David Graeber, will spark widespread debate and be heralded as an instant classic for anthropologists, historians, and philosophers.

The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual (Paperback): Andrew Ross, David Graeber, George Caffentzis The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual (Paperback)
Andrew Ross, David Graeber, George Caffentzis
R478 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the last 30 years, wages have stagnated and average household debt has more than doubled. People are forced to take on debt to meet their everyday needs like housing and education, leading to devastated communities and an increasing reliance on credit to maintain basic living standards. This system enriches the lives of few at the expense of many. 'The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual' is a handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how the debt system really works, while providing practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative forms.

Civilization - The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings (Hardcover): Abdullah OEcalan Civilization - The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings (Hardcover)
Abdullah OEcalan; Translated by Havin Guneser; Preface by David Graeber
R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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