David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities
Çubukçu, A.
(2024).
David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities.
boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture,
51(4), 15–127.
https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-11394190
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 |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2024 Duke University Press |
| Departments | LSE > Academic Departments > Sociology |
| DOI | 10.1215/01903659-11394190 |
| Date Deposited | 22 Apr 2024 |
| Acceptance Date | 09 Aug 2022 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/122719 |