David Graeber

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Graeber
Occupation	American Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1961(1961-02-12)
Age	63
Date Of Death	2020-09-02
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Graeber Biography

David Graeber is one of the most popular and richest American anthropologist who was born on February 12, 1961 in New York, United States. The parents of Graeber were in their 40s at the time Graeber was born, had been self-taught working class intellectuals from New York. The parents of Graeber are Jewish. His mother, Ruth Rubinstein, had worked as a garment worker and she played the lead in the musical comedy show Pins and Needles which was presented by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The father of Graeber is Kenneth was a member in the Youth Communist League in college but he resigned prior to the signing of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. was a participant as a soldier in the Spanish Revolution in Barcelona and was a soldier during the Spanish Civil War. He was later employed in the field of plate stripping in offset printers. Graeber was raised within New York, in a cooperative housing complex that was which was described as by Business Week magazine as “suffused with radical politics.” Graeber is an anarchist since he was 16 according to an interview he did with The Village Voice in 2005.

In 1998 just two years after completing the requirements for his PhD, Graeber became assistant professor at Yale University, then became an associate professor. In May 2005 it was decided that the Yale Anthropology department decided not to renew the contract of Graeber, not allowing tenure consideration, that was scheduled for the year 2008. In a statement praising Graeber’s anthropological research and his supporters (including colleagues in the field and former students as well as activists) said they were political driven. Over 4,500 people signed petitions for him, while Anthropologists like Marshall Sahlins, Laura Nader, Michael Taussig, and Maurice Bloch called for Yale to reverse its decision. Bloch was an anthropology professor in the London School of Economics and the College de France, and the author of a book on Madagascar He made the following comment regarding Graeber by writing a letter addressed to the school:

His activism includes protests against the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001, and the 2002 World Economic Forum in New York City. Graeber was a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is sometimes credited with having coined the slogan, “We are the 99 percent”.

In addition to his academic work, Graeber has a history of both direct and indirect involvement in political activism, including membership in the labor union Industrial Workers of the World, a role in protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City in 2002, support for the 2010 UK student protests, and an early role in the Occupy Wall Street movement. He is co- founder of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence.

Graeber is the writer of Fragments of Anarchist Anthropology as well as Towards the development of an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Personal Dreams. He has conducted extensive research in the field of anthropology in Madagascar and is currently conducting his doctoral dissertation (The Disastrous Ordeal of 1987 Violence and Memory and violence in Rural Madagascar) on the ever-present social division between people who descend from noble families and those of slaves who were once. A book that is based of his thesis, Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar was published by Indiana University Press in September 2007. A book of collected essays, Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire was published by AK Press in November 2007 and Direct Action: An Ethnography appeared from the same press in August 2009, as well as a collection of essays co-edited with Stevphen Shukaitis called Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations//Collective Theorization (AK Press, May 2007). Then came an important monograph on history, Debt: The First Five Thousand years (Melville House) that was released in July of 2011. When discussing Debt in conversation with The Brooklyn Rail, Graeber remarked:

David Graeber Net Worth

David Graeber is one of the richest American Anthropologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Graeber 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Rolfe Graeber (/”‘ g r eI b @r /; born February 12th 1961) is an American Anarchist activist, anthropologist and author best known for his books of 2011 Debt The First 500 Years, 2015: The Utopia of Rules , and the 2018 book, Bullshit Jobs A Theory. He is an anthropology professor in The London School of Economics.

Graeber was a graduate of Phillips Academy Andover in 1978 and earned his B.A. at the State University of New York at Purchase in 1984. He earned his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago, where He was awarded an Fulbright grant to conduct twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork from Betafo, Madagascar, beginning in 1989. The resultant Ph.D. thesis on magic and slavery and politics was directed by Marshall Sahlins and entitled The Tragic Ordeal of 1987 and the Legacy of Memory and violence in rural Madagascar.

As an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale from 1998 to 2007, Graeber 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. He went on to become, from 2007 to 2013, Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Much of Graeber’s recent scholarship has focused on the topic of “bullshit jobs,” proliferated by administrative bloat and what Graeber calls “managerial feudalism”. One of the points he raises in his 2013 book The Democracy Project – on the Occupy movement – is the increase in what he calls bullshit jobs, referring to forms of employment that even those holding the jobs feel should not or do not need to exist. He sees such jobs as being typically “concentrated in professional, managerial, clerical, sales, and service workers”. As he explained also in an article in STRIKE! magazine:

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular American anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Graeber celebrates birthday on February 12 of every year.

Graeber tweeted in 2014 that he had been evicted from his family’s home of over 50 years due to his involvement with Occupy Wall Street. He added that others associated with Occupy had received similar “administrative harassment”.

How old was David Graeber?

59 years (1961–2020)

Who wrote the book debt?

David Graeber

What is David Graeber's best book?

Books

What is Anarchism?

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions they claim maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not necessarily limited to, the state and capitalism.

How old is the concept of debt?

The English term “debt” was first used in the late 13th century. The term “debt” comes from “dette, from Old French dete, from Latin debitum “thing owed,” neuter past participle of debere “to owe,” originally, “keep something away from someone,” from de- “away” (see de-) + habere “to have” (see habit (n.)).