![]() ![]() ![]() David Graeber always seemed to be making or holding space for other people, prioritising those with less power than himself. Liking someone and sharing their politics can encourage over-statement at times like this. LSE Anthropology are holding an open space commemoration for David on Wednesday 16 th September from 4:30-5:30 via Zoom. ![]() For us all, perhaps, he was what an anthropologist should be-a messenger of other possibilities. We also remember him as full of humour and quizzical challenge, encouraging us to take risks and think differently. Striking against learned ignorance everywhere he criticised the banal cruelty of debt, bullshit jobs and the devaluation of our humanity. ![]() Each conversation with him, and reading of his work, took us on a new path. His brilliant work ranged from studies of Madagascan funerary practices, magic, bureaucracy, financialisation to kings, puppets and pirates. He was a person with so many facets that it is only by opening up this space to a community of remembrance that we can engage with his legacy. David was a hugely influential anthropologist, political activist and public intellectual. We are shocked and saddened to learn of David Graeber’s death. ![]()
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