Books
Book review: How Madagascar pirates may have put traditional society to the sword
In Pirate Enlightenment Davide Graeber details how the flowering of equality among various multi-ethnic buccaneering groups could have influenced the enlightenment movement in Europe, but the evidence for this is thin on the ground
The name of anthropologist David Graeber, who died from necrotic pancreatitis in 2020, might be familiar to you. He was a leading light of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the early part of the last decade and wrote the 2018 book Bullshit Jobs, which argued that box-ticking employment is not only pointless, but actually psychologically damaging and a universal basic income is a much better idea.
Graeber also co-authored (with David Wengrow) The Dawn ...
