Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence . . . . But what if they didn’t? This pamphlet ponders what that response would be, and explores the implications of linking anthropology to anarchism. Here, David Graeber invites readers to imagine this discipline that currently only exists in the realm of possibility: anarchist anthropology.
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
For David, anthropology and anarchism were conceptually linked – both posited a horizontal and open-ended commitment to common projects; like anarchism, anthropology depends on an effort to understand what the other thinks and feels; in other words, the method of anthropology is the spirit of anarchism. In this brief text, David traces the shared intellectual genealogy of both traditions to illuminate the way an anarchist social theory could reveal the endless variety of human societies.
by Andris Suvajevs
- Why are there so few anarchists in the academy
- This does not mean anarchist theory is impossible.
- Graves, Brown, Mauss, Sorel
- The anarchist anthropology that almost already does exist
- Blowing Up Walls
- Tenets of a Non-existent Science
1) A THEORY OF THE STATE
2) A THEORY OF POLITICAL ENTITIES THAT ARE NOT STATES
3) YET ANOTHER
THEORY OF CAPITALISM
4) POWER/IGNORANCE, or POWER/STUPIDITY
5) AN ECOLOGY
OF VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS
6) A THEORY OF POLITICAL HAPPINESS
7) HIERARCHY
8) SUFFERING AND PLEASURE: ON THE PRIVATIZATION OF DESIRE
9) ONE OR SEVERAL THEORIES OF ALIENATION
(1) Globalization and the Elimination of North-South Inequalities
(2) The Struggle Against Work
(3) DEMOCRACY
- ANTHROPOLOGY
(in which the author somewhat reluctantly bites the hand that feeds him)
Chinese (Simplified)
Title: 无政府主义人类学碎片
First Published: 2014
ISBN: 9787549555277
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
Translators:
Yuk Hui
Pages: 120Czech
Title: Fragmenty anarchistické antropologie
First Published: 2013
ISBN: 9788087259191
Publisher: Tranzit
Translators:
Martin Ritter
Pages: 104Danish
Title: Brudstykker af en anarkistisk antropologi
First Published: 2016
ISBN: 9788793312258
Publisher: OVO Press
Translators:
Rasmus Graff
,Mai Corlin
Pages: 93
Title: Brudstykker af en anarkistisk antropologi (2nd edition)
First Published: 2017
ISBN: 9788793312210
Publisher: OVO Press
Translators:
Rasmus Graff
,Mai Corlin
Pages: 93English
Title: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
First Published: 2004
ISBN: 9780972819640
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Pages: 102
French
Title: Pour une anthropologie anarchiste
First Published: 2018
ISBN: 9782895962724
Publisher: Lux
Translators:
Karine Peschard
Pages: 128German
Title: Frei von Herrschaft: Fragmente einer anarchistischen Anthropologie
First Published: 2008
ISBN: 9783779502081
Publisher: Peter Hammer Verlag
Translators:
Werner Petermann
Pages: 120Greek
Title: Αποσπάσματα μιας Αναρχικής Ανθρωπολογίας
First Published: 2019
ISBN: 9789608970502
Publisher: Stasei Ekpiptontes
Translators:
Spyros Kourouklis
Pages: 160Indonesian
Title: Kepingan-Kepingan Antropologi Anarkis
First Published: 2021
Publisher: Pustaka Catut
Pages: 110
Italian
Title: Frammenti di antropologia anarchica
First Published: 2020
ISBN: 9788833020839
Publisher: Eleuthera
Translators:
Alberto Prunetti
Pages: 136
Title: Frammenti di antropologia anarchica
First Published: 2006
ISBN: 9788889490259
Publisher: Eleuthera
Translators:
Alberto Prunetti
Pages: 103Japanese
Title: アナーキスト人類学のための断章
First Published: 2006
ISBN: 9784753102513
Publisher: Ibunsha
Translators:
Iwasaburo Takaso
Pages: 197Korean
Title: 아나키스트 인류학의 조각들
First Published: 2016
ISBN: 9791195277063
Publisher: Podobat
Translators:
Na Hyeon-young
Pages: 192Lithuanian
Title: Anarchistinės antropologijos fragmentai
First Published: 2020
ISBN: 9786098280029
Publisher: Hubris
Translators:
Viktoras Bachmetjevas
Pages: 128Polish
Title: Fragmenty antropologii anarchistycznej
First Published: 2021
ISBN: 9788366114227
Publisher: Bractwo Trojka
Translators:
Qrde
Pages: 78Portuguese
Title: Fragmentos de uma Antropologia Anarquista
First Published: 2011
ISBN: 9786586008050
Publisher: Deriva
Translators:
Pedro Ferreira
Pages: 184Russian
Title: Фрагменты анархистской антропологии
First Published: 2014
Publisher: Radikalnaya Teoriya i Praktika
Pages: 168
Slovene
Title: Fragmenti anarhistične antropologije
First Published: 2013
ISBN: 9789612570538
Publisher: Založba
Translators:
Polona Poberžnik
Pages: 105Spanish
Title: Fragmentos de Antropología Anarquista
First Published: 2011
ISBN: 9788492559220
Publisher: Virus
Translators:
Ambar Sewell
Title: Fragmentos de Antropología Anarquista
First Published: 2019
ISBN: 9788492559923
Publisher: Virus
Translators:
Ambar Sewell
Pages: 128Turkish
Title: Anarşist Bir Antropolojiden Parçalar
First Published: 2012
ISBN: 9786054238873
Publisher: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi
Translators:
Bengü Bade Baz
,Bengü Kurtege-Sefer
Pages: 102ON ANARCHIST ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology Against the State:
A Review of David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
On the Inseparability of High Theory and Low Theory:
A Critical Review of David Graeber´s Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Review of David Graeber,Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Book Review: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Steven Shaviro, professor in English at Wayne State University
David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is filled with interesting and provocative ideas. Graeber wants to ally the discipline of anthropology with the anarchist currents that have shown up, most recently, in the anti-globalization movement. Each, he says, has a lot to offer the other.
Ayça Çubukçu On “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology”
David Graeber LSE Tribute
Published in 2004 in the inspirational context of a veritably exploding anarchism around the world, David Graeber’s Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (referred to here on as Fragments) is a tiny and mighty, genre-defying text. Graeber calls it a pamphlet, “a series of thoughts, sketches of potential theories, and tiny manifestos”
David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities
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.
