https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/david-graeber-on-the-new-political-imagination/2008/12/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/david-graeber-on-the-new-political-imagination/2008/12/02/comment-page-1#comment-344323 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:37:37 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2161#comment-344323 Graeber is truly an inspiring anthropologist. One intriguing theme in his work is the way in which he describes the unofficial or anarchistic economies that have either fallen out of the radar of the state (like in his book “Possibilities”, discussing Madagascar), or, even more importantly, invisibly support the official economy and GDP (like the “communism” described in the quoted article). Here is his text discussing Mauss on the Gift: <a href=”http://www.freewords.org/graeber.html” “Give It Away”

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