- Anti-globalization movement, Summit of the Americas (3rd : 2001 : Québec, Québec), Political anthropology, Amerika-Gipfel (2001)
Direct Action: An Ethnography offers a lengthy, traditional anthropological account of anarchist organizing efforts, with a focus on New York City’s Direct Action Network. For fellow researchers, he addresses the difficulties of using the narrative form and offers tips such as notetaking tools used (spiral notebook and rapidograph, a technical pen that eases hand-writing).
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Grave, cool, contemplative and earnest.
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- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- David Graeber
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 600
- Publisher
- ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, AK Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781459620513
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- Anti-globalization movement
- Summit of the Americas (3rd : 2001 : Québec, Québec)
- Political anthropology
- Amerika-Gipfel (2001)
- Anthropologie politique
- Altermondialisme
- Aktivismus
- Antiglobalisierungsbewegung
- Feldforschung
- Summit of the Americas (3rd : 2001 : Québec City, Québec)
- Sommet des Amériques (3e : 2001 : Québec, Québec)
- Summit of the Americas. fast (OCoLC)fst01408517
**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
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