The late anthropologist maintains that the pirate culture of Madagascar was a major influence on thinkers like Hobbes and Locke.

In his last book, the iconoclastic anthropologist David Graeber considers evidence that maritime outlaws created utopian political communities on the island in the Indian Ocean.

Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Noam Chomsky about pirate societies, ‘bewildered herds’ and the fragility of the present in the context of the late anthropologist David Graeber’s final book

An anthropologist argues that experimental communities in Madagascar influenced the European Enlightenment

David Graeber and the Anthropology of Unequal Society

Rosabelle Boswell points to the main themes of the book: postcolonial identity, slavery, and violence. She highlights the opening statement that 'People don’t live their lives to prove some academic’s point' - an approach that allows Graeber not only to produce a detailed account of Malagasy living in Betafo, but also to draw readers into the lives of his 'former friends'.

Margaret L. Brown points out that the intriguing feature of the tale told by Graeber is the extent to which people aim to keep their animosity below the surface. She recommends the book to those readers seeking a detailed analysis of the workings of everyday politics in a small community.

The disagreements between Graeber and Campbell are published under "Communications", 2009
Graeber describes the review by Campbell as an personal insult.

This is a review by Eva Keller, published in African Studies Review. 52 (1): 165–167, in 2009

This is a review by Detlev Krige, published in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 11, Issue 1 , Fall 2009

This is a review by Genese Sodikoff, published in The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 41 (2): 325–326, 2008

The late anthropologist on how an 18th-century Madagascan microstate provides a model for egalitarian living

This is a review by Annelie Hyatt, published in the Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism

This is a review by Lena Tama, published in the Flaschenpost in 2023

The true, swashbuckling lives of matriarchs, anarchists, and pirates at the crossroads of the world.

This is a review by Nikhil Krishhnan, published in the Telegraph, 19Jan2023

David Graeber’s posthumous book, “Pirate Enlightenment,” is a reminder of the joys of reading the popular anthropologist.

This is a review by Kevin Carson, published in the Center for a Stateless Society in 2023

This is a review by Javier González Diaz, published in L'Indice dei Libri del Mese in 2013

This is a review by Marcus Rediker, published in The Nation. in 2023

О том, что общего у политиков и астрологов, как тяга к мистическим историям связана с отсутствием власти и почему смешивать землю из двух могил, чтобы поймать рисового вора, — не лучшая идея, рассказывает Роман Королев.