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A little over a year ago I linked to a few pieces which explored Durkheim’s vision of “communism.” I’d like to follow that up with two pieces I found recently which touch on the socialist leanings of his nephew, Mauss . Both are by professors at Goldsmiths, in London. The first, published in In These [...]

Happy New Year! I’m a bit late with this, but I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some of our best material from 2007, as I did in 2006.
Open Access
I think 2007 was a great year for the open access movement. The open access anthropology blog is going strong and we have a lot [...]

I’m grateful for Strong’s post calling attention to David Graeber’s recent Malinowski Lecture on bureaucracy and power. These issues have been much on my mind in recent months.
Some personal background: One of the challenges (and very occasionally, pleasures) of working at a small college is that faculty members are often given administrative tasks that [...]

From David Graeber’s 2006 Malinowski Lecture at LSE, about the structural violence reproduced in and through modern bureacracies:
Police are, essentially, bureaucrats with weapons. At the same time, they have, significantly, over the last fifty years or so become the almost obsessive objects of imaginative identification in popular culture… [which] throws an odd wrinkle in [...]

An interview with David Graeber on Charlie Rose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uajHCIU876I

Rex’s recent post on “neoliberalism” sparked some good discussion, but much of it was focused on trying to define the term rather than understanding the phenomenon. In a comment Rex tried to refocus the discussion: Let me try rephrasing: is this conjunction of stuff indicative of a moment (perhaps passed) in anthropology? And if so, [...]

Somehow, I missed this.
The NYT did an interview with the putatively besieged David Graeber. My favorite line is the following:
Over barbecued beef wrapped in grape leaves and jumbo shrimp on chipped ice, he described his path from a teenager who translated hieroglyphic passages that had never before been translated to a scholar whose [...]

Over break I am trying to do some “remedial theory” reading to keep up with the Newest Latest in anthropological work. One of the books that I am slowly working through is David Graeber’s Toward an Anthropoogical Theory of Value. It’s difficult for me to get into because I’ve never been very interested in value. [...]

Buried in a comment thread in an entry that scrolled off the main page, John asks:
who are you reading now whom you would recommend as a model to emulate? Whose work looks promising—not just in terms of what the individual author might do—but in terms of defining a paradigm that others might want to [...]

A couple days ago, fellow Savage Mind Alex wrote on his own blog about David Graeber, the Yale anthropologist recently fired for his anarchist activism. Not so much, it should be noted, for his ideology: as Graeber explains in his Counterpunch interview, although there was some opposition to his work, the real tipping point was [...]