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The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation
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Epic, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- David Graeber, David Wengrow
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 704
- Publisher
- Rizzoli, Polirom, Editorial Ariel
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Spanish, rum, French, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781250818669
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“Most of human history is irreparably lost to us.”
**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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