"#DavidGraeber was the #anthropologist who re-framed economics by showing that its most basic assumptions were myths.
Where conventional economists traced money to barter and exchange, #Graeber traced it to trust and relationships. He argued that the origins of money lay not in #markets but in #morality: in obligations, promises, and the human capacity for cooperation."
This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been, and what the relevance of that question might be today. There is a list of all posts in the series at the end of each...
This will be the good side of so-called #evolutionarypsychology talking to evolutionary #anthropologist actually, the excellent Karen Kramer on #cooperative breeding in human #evolution
Jane Goodall leaves behind hope and a survival guide to get through trying times
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/jane-goodall-leave-hope
Jane Goodall, famed #Primatologist , #anthropologist and #conservationist , dead at 91
"The #JaneGoodall Inst. has learned this morning, Wed, October 1, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace & Founder of the Jane #Goodall Institute has passed away due to natural causes," the institute said on social media. "She was in #California as part of her speaking tour in the United States."
Goodall’s discoveries as an #ethologist revolutionized science
#obituary
The #Anthropologist at Home
Das Eigene wird zum Fremden. Der Blick richtet sich auf die unsichtbaren Selbstverständlichkeiten westlicher Kulturen.
On 2nd September, 2020, IWW member and #anarchist #anthropologist David #Graeber died at the age of 59. He participated in various mobilizations such as occupy wall street.
His work was quite extensive and several are his contributions to #anarchism, to anthropology and to the relationship between the two, among his work we find:
Fragments of an anarchist anthropology.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://edicioneslasocial.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/fragmentosdeaafin___.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjksuLjqM3rAhU2ILkGHQHGBgoQFjASegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw0orzQz1RRD0riPyi-7SxPj&cshid=1599144196816
-Shitty jobs.
https://www.rentabasicauniversal.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Trabajos-de-mierda_-Una-teoria-David-Graeber.pdf
-The utopia of rules.
-In debt
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://untdfdinero.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/graeber-2014-una-historia-alternativa.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjai8i7rc3rAhXIF7kGHYx2DtM4KBAWMAV6BAgFEAE&usg=AOvVaw2MTSvJrfDzvUbelFcBWOhd
-We are the 99%
https://papayas.pe/index.php/es/textos-pdf/textos-no-clasificados/item/11658-somos-el-99-pdf-david-graeber
-lost peoples
-The democracy project
-Direct action. An ethnography.
-He was doing an anthropological theory of value.
-Possibilities.
-On kings.
-Revolutions in reverse.
-Uprisings: An illustrated guide to popular rebellion!
🎧 Decoding the Gurus: https://pod.link/1531266667
— is a sharp, insightful #podcast that dissects the rise of modern "secular gurus"—those influential figures who captivate audiences with bold #ideas and charismatic delivery.
Hosted by cognitive #anthropologist Christopher Kavanagh and #psychologist Matthew Browne, the show blends academic rigor with #humor to analyze the methods and messages of these contemporary thought leaders.
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