{"product_id":"pirate-enlightenment-or-the-real-libertalia-david-graeber","title":"Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia;  David Graeber","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies--vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges of European empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn graduate school, David Graeber conducted ethnographic field research in Madagascar, producing what would eventually become a doctoral thesis on the island's magic, slavery, and politics. During this time, he encountered the Zana-Malata, an ethnic group made up of mixed descendants of the many pirates who settled on the island at the beginning of the eighteenth century. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Graeber's final posthumous book, is the outgrowth of this early research, and the culmination of ideas that he explored in his classic, bestselling works \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDebt\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dawn of Everything\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(written with the archeologist David Wengrow).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGraeber explores how the proto-democratic practices of the Zana-Malata came to shape the Enlightenment project defined for too long as distinctly European. He illuminates the non-European origins of what we consider to be \"Western\" thought, and endeavors to recover forgotten forms of social and political order that gesture toward new, hopeful possibilities for the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanuary 24, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Rolfe Graeber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was an American anthropologist and anarchist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn June 15, 2007, Graeber accepted the offer of a lectureship in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he held the title of Reader in Social Anthropology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrior to that position, he was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him, and his term there ended in June 2007.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGraeber had a history of social and political activism, including his role in protests against the World Economic Forum in New York City (2002) and membership in the labor union Industrial Workers of the World. He was an core participant in the Occupy Movement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe passed away in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49464870764866,"sku":"","price":10.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/pirateenlight.jpg?v=1722105551","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/pirate-enlightenment-or-the-real-libertalia-david-graeber","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}