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‘Forgive us our Debt, as we Forgive our Debtors’: Our Debt to Graeber

‘Forgive us our Debt, as we Forgive our Debtors’: Our Debt to Graeber The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 176–181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2015.1103359 REVIEW ESSAY ‘Forgive us our Debt, as we Forgive our Debtors’: Our Debt to Graeber Chris Gregory Debt: The First 5000 Years DAVID GRAEBER Brooklyn, Melville House Publishing, 2014 The recent release in 2014 of an updated and expanded version of Debt: The First 5000 Years prompts me to reflect on the enduring significance of Graeber’s book for anthro- pology and anthropologists. The book has been an astonishing popular success and has become an international bestseller but should we in the academy take the book seriously? Is there any substance to it? Does it represent a challenge to the way we think about and do anthropology? Debt is anthropology in the broadest and most radical sense of the term. It is nothing less than a critique of the present moral state of humanity that provides hope for the future by means of an encyclopaedic examination of the history of debt over the past 5000 years. Its ambitious scope invites comparison with Marx’s nineteenth-century classic Capital and Polanyi’s twentieth-century classic The Great Transformation, both of which were attempts to explain where we have come from, where http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

‘Forgive us our Debt, as we Forgive our Debtors’: Our Debt to Graeber

Gregory, Chris
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 17 (2): 6 – Mar 14, 2016
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‘Forgive us our Debt, as we Forgive our Debtors’: Our Debt to Graeber

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 176–181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2015.1103359 REVIEW ESSAY ‘Forgive us our Debt, as we Forgive our Debtors’: Our Debt to Graeber Chris Gregory Debt: The First 5000 Years DAVID GRAEBER Brooklyn, Melville House Publishing, 2014 The recent release in 2014 of an updated and expanded version of Debt: The First 5000 Years prompts me to reflect on the enduring significance of...
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2016 Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 176–181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2015.1103359 REVIEW ESSAY ‘Forgive us our Debt, as we Forgive our Debtors’: Our Debt to Graeber Chris Gregory Debt: The First 5000 Years DAVID GRAEBER Brooklyn, Melville House Publishing, 2014 The recent release in 2014 of an updated and expanded version of Debt: The First 5000 Years prompts me to reflect on the enduring significance of Graeber’s book for anthro- pology and anthropologists. The book has been an astonishing popular success and has become an international bestseller but should we in the academy take the book seriously? Is there any substance to it? Does it represent a challenge to the way we think about and do anthropology? Debt is anthropology in the broadest and most radical sense of the term. It is nothing less than a critique of the present moral state of humanity that provides hope for the future by means of an encyclopaedic examination of the history of debt over the past 5000 years. Its ambitious scope invites comparison with Marx’s nineteenth-century classic Capital and Polanyi’s twentieth-century classic The Great Transformation, both of which were attempts to explain where we have come from, where

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