David Graeber

10.4k citations
115 papers · 4.9k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 33

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Papers in

    • Anthropological Studies and Insights 13
    • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories 11
    • African history and culture studies 6
    • Colonialism, slavery, and trade 5
    • Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts 4

David Graeber

103 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Direct Action: An Ethnography 2009 · 378 citations
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David Graeber
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  • Anthropology 1.0k
  • Geography, Planning and Development 368
  • Archeology 63
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.2k
  • Urban Studies 269
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All Works

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Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
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2001817
2
Direct Action: An Ethnography
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2009378
3
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
2004320
4
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
2013283
5 2015211
6
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
2016191
7
Constituent imagination: militant investigations, collective theorization
2007181
8
The new anarchists
2002166
9 2013160
10
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
2015151
11 2012133
12
Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
2007129
13 2003124
14 2015111
15
Debt: the first five thousand years
200993
16 201186
17 200382
18 201180
19 199675
20 200573

About David Graeber

David Graeber is a scholar working on Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Urban Studies, having authored 115 papers that have together received 4.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Anthropological Studies and Insights (13 papers), Anarchism and Radical Politics (12 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (11 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (7 papers), African history and culture studies (6 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 papers), Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (4 papers) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (1.0k citations), Geography, Planning and Development (368 citations), Archeology (63 citations), Sociology and Political Science (2.2k citations) and Urban Studies (269 citations). David Graeber has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Brazil. Frequent co-authors include David Wengrow, Stevphen Shukaitis, Kay M. Stanney, Giovanni da Col, Mansooreh Mollaghasemi, Leah Reeves, Robert S. Kennedy, Deborah Helitzer, Marianna LaNoue and Ben D. Lawson. Their work appears in journals such as Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Community Mental Health Journal, American Anthropologist, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and American Ethnologist.

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