The Dawn Of Everything
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374157357
First entered: 13th, Nov 2021
Number of weeks: 9
Book Summary
Authors
Name: David Graeber
Hometown: New York
Born: Feb, 1961
Died: Sep, 2020
About the author:
David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist.
On June 15, 2007, Graeber accepted the offer of a lectureship in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he currently holds the title of Reader in Social Anthropology.
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.
Graeber 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.
Name: David Wengrow
About the author:
David Wengrow is a researcher, author and the Professor of Comparative Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
He has special interests in studying The Archaeology of Human Evolution, Archaeology, Heritage and Civilisation in Iraqi Kurdistan, Cultures of Prehistoric and Dynastic Egypt.