David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities

Çubukçu, Ayça (2024) David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities. boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture, 51 (4). 15–127. ISSN 0190-3659

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This essay offers a close reading of David Graeber's posthumously published magnum opus The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), which he co‐authored with David Wengrow. The essay engages critically with the concepts of “humanity” and “freedom” that The Dawn of Everything advances. Highlighting how Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004) foreshadows The Dawn of Everything in the kind of radical social theory both books advance, the essay proposes that we treat Graeber's scholarship as an anthropology of human possibilities.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/article-abs...
Additional Information:	© 2024 Duke University Press
Divisions:	Sociology
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Date Deposited:	22 Apr 2024 11:21
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2025 09:03
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122719

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