- Africa, history
"Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies--vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of the European empire.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- David Graeber
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- Companhia das Letras, Picador, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781802061574
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“Este ensaio foi escrito originalmente para ser um capítulo numa coletânea de textos sobre o direito divino dos reis que coassinei com Marshall Sahlins.”
**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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