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" Possibilities : "
David Graeber
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BL
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593812
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GBA764695b423031
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| Main Entry
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Graeber, David
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| Title & Author
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Possibilities : : essays on hierarchy, rebellion and desire /\ David Graeber
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| Publication Statement
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Oakland, CA ;Edinburgh :: AK,, 2007
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433 p. ;; 23 cm
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9781904859666 (pbk.)
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: 1904859666 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Pt. 1. Some thoughts on the origins of our current predicament. Manners, deference, and private property: or, elements for a general theory of hierarchy -- The very idea of consumption: desire, phantasms, and the aesthetics of destruction from medieval times to the present -- Turning modes of production inside-out: or, why capitalism is a transformation fo slavery (short version) -- Fetishism as social creativity: or, fetishes are gods in the process of construction -- pt. 2. Provisional autonomous zone: dilemmas of authority in rural Madagascar. Provisional autonomous zone: or, the ghost-state in Madagascar -- Dancing with corpses resonsidered: an interpretation of Famadihana (in Arivonimamo, Madigascar) -- Love magic and political morality in central Madagascar, 1875-1990 -- Oppression -- pt. 3. Direct action, direct democracy, and social theory. The twilight of vanguardism -- Social theory as science and utopia: or, does the prospect of a general sociological theory still mean anything in an age of globalization? -- There never was a west: or, democracy emerges from the spaces in between -- On the phenomenology of giant puppets: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture
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Capitalism
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Economic anthropology
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306.342
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GN448.G73 2007
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