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Possibilities : essays on hierarchy, rebellion and desire
- Title
- Possibilities : essays on hierarchy, rebellion and desire / David Graeber.
- Author
- Graeber, David.
- Publication
- Oakland, CA ; Edinburgh : AK, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- 433 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-2360
- ISBN
- 9781904859666 (pbk.)
- 1904859666 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2007928387
- OCLC
- 154704091
- Author
- Graeber, David.
- Title
- Possibilities : essays on hierarchy, rebellion and desire / David Graeber.
- Imprint
- Oakland, CA ; Edinburgh : AK, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-2360