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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. He was an assistant professor at Yale University from 1998 to 2005, when the university controversially decided not to renew his contract before he was eligible for tenure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Graeber has received more than 2,426,617 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). David Graeber is the 44th most popular anthropologist (up from 60th in 2019), the 4,013th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,967th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Anthropologist.

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  • 38

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  • 3.66

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  • 4.14

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, David Graeber ranks 44 out of 69. Before him are Fredrik Barth, Marcel Griaule, John Lloyd Stephens, Lubor Niederle, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, and Ralph Linton. After him are Georges Vacher de Lapouge, Paolo Mantegazza, Maurice Godelier, Gilberto Freyre, Alfred Sauvy, and Edmund Leach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, David Graeber ranks 112. Before him are Bernard Werber, Ferenc Gyurcsány, Victoria Nuland, Toby Keith, James Rollins, and Uhuru Kenyatta. After him are Dana Reeve, Vincent Gallo, Franky Van der Elst, Vasily Ignatenko, Jackie Earle Haley, and Melissa Etheridge. Among people deceased in 2020, David Graeber ranks 226. Before him are Hans-Jochen Vogel, Annie Cordy, Pedro Casaldáliga, Lynn Cohen, Jörn Donner, and John Lewis. After him are Park Won-soon, Jean Delumeau, Ernesto Brambilla, Louis Nirenberg, Larry Tesler, and Silva Batuta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Graeber ranks 4,013 out of 18,182. Before him are Berry Gordy (1929), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Sid Haig (1939), Carmine Appice (1946), Brian Keith (1921), and Mike Love (1941). After him are William Stanley Jr. (1858), Anne Francis (1930), Michael Nouri (1945), Lenny Bruce (1925), Bud Abbott (1897), and Larry Wall (1954).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, David Graeber ranks 14. Before him are Leslie White (1900), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Ann Dunham (1942), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), and Ralph Linton (1893). After him are Michael Harner (1929), Melville J. Herskovits (1895), George Murdock (1897), Madison Grant (1865), Helen Fisher (1945), and Gayle Rubin (1949).

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