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Biographies of David Graeber

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English biographies

David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time. Born in New York to a working-class Jewish family, Graeber studied at Purcha...

Biography was retrieved from Wikipedia and was last updated on June 2024.

David wrote about himself:

I was born and raised in New York, the child of Kenneth Graeber, a plate stripper (offset photolithography), originally from Kansas, who had fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and Ruth (Rubinstein) Graeber, born in Poland, a garment worker and home-maker who had been the female lead in the 1930s Labor Stage musical, Pins & Needles.

Brought up in the Penn South Coops in Chelsea, I attended local public schools, PS 11, and IS 70, was discovered by some Maya archaeologists because of an odd hobby I had developed of translating Maya hieroglyphics, received a scholarship to attend a fancy boarding school for three years (Phillips Academy at Andover), before...


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French biographies

David Graeber, né le 12 février 1961 à New York (États-Unis) et mort le 2 septembre 2020 à Venise (Italie), est un anthropologue et militant anarchiste américain, théoricien de la pensée libertaire nord-américaine et figure de proue du mouvement Occupy Wall Street. Évincé de l'université Yale en 2007, David Graeber, « l’un des intellectuels les plus influents du monde anglo-saxon » selon le New York Times, est ensuite professeur à la London School of Economics. Il est notamment le théoricien du ...

Biography was retrieved from Wikipedia and was last updated on June 2024.

Arabic biographies

ديفيد غرايبر (مواليد 12 فبراير 1961) (بالإنجليزية: David Graeber)‏ أنثروبولوجي وناشط أناركي أمريكي، ومنظِّر الفكر التحرري في أمريكا الشمالية، ومن شخصيات حركة «احتلوا وول ستريت». يعتبر غرايبر أحد أكثر المفكرين تأثيرا في العالم الأنجلو ساكسوني وفقًا لصحيفة نيويورك تايمز. عمل أستاذًا بكلية لندن للاقتصاد حتى أواخر أيامه. من مؤلفاته: «نحو نظرية أنثربولوجية للقيم» (2001)، و«الشعب المفقود: السحر وتراث العبودية في مدغشقر» (2007)، و«الديون: أول 5000 سنة» (2011)، و«المشروع الديمقراطي» (2013). نظرة عامة ...

Biography was retrieved from Wikipedia and was last updated on March 2023.

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