ANTHROPOLOGIST

David Graeber

1961 - 2020

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David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time. Born in New York to a working-class Jewish family, Graeber studied at Purchase College and the University of Chicago, where he conducted ethnographic research in Madagascar under Marshall Sahlins and obtained his doctorate in 1996. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Graeber has received more than 2,621,324 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). David Graeber is the 38th most popular anthropologist (up from 43rd in 2019), the 3,584th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,002nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Anthropologist.

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, David Graeber ranks 38 out of 93. Before him are Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Richard Leakey, Franco Basaglia, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Marcel Griaule, and Jean Malaurie. After him are Paolo Mantegazza, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Aleš Hrdlička, Louis Dumont, Georges Vacher de Lapouge, and Lubor Niederle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, David Graeber ranks 109. Before him are Moana Pozzi, Victoria Nuland, Bonnie Hunt, Armin Laschet, The Edge, and Melissa Etheridge. After him are Borjana Krišto, Kati Outinen, Christopher Meloni, Tony Rominger, James Rollins, and Isiah Thomas. Among people deceased in 2020, David Graeber ranks 204. Before him are Jimmy McLane, Rishi Kapoor, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Shirley Knight, David Stern, and Juan Marsé. After him are Yuri Orlov, Ronald Harwood, Gigi Proietti, Helen Reddy, Mario Corso, and Alfred Worden.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Graeber ranks 3,584 out of 20,380. Before him are Pat Boone (1934), R. A. Salvatore (1959), David Harbour (1975), Melissa Etheridge (1961), Elmore James (1918), and Larry Wall (1954). After him are James Rebhorn (1948), Ona Munson (1903), Paula Abdul (1962), Arnold Gesell (1880), Richard Williams (1942), and Sally Hemings (1773).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, David Graeber ranks 11. Before him are Edward T. Hall (1914), Marshall Sahlins (1930), A. L. Kroeber (1876), Ann Dunham (1942), Marvin Harris (1927), and Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857). After him are John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Helen Fisher (1945), Ralph Linton (1893), Melville J. Herskovits (1895), George Murdock (1897), and Gayle Rubin (1949).

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