{"name": "David Graeber", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "**David Rolfe Graeber** (/\u02c8\u0261re\u026ab\u0259r/; February 12, 1961 \u2013 September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author known for his books *Debt: The First 5000 Years* (2011), *The Utopia of Rules* (2015) and *Bullshit Jobs: A Theory* (2018). He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.\r\n\r\nAs an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale from 1998\u20132007 he specialised in theories of value and social theory. The university's decision not to rehire him when he would otherwise have become eligible for tenure sparked an academic controversy, and a petition with more than 4,500 signatures. He went on to become, from 2007\u201313, Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. ([Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber))"}, "alternate_names": ["David Rolfe Graeber", "David R. Graeber"], "source_records": ["amazon:0374157359", "amazon:2367628580", "bwb:9781802061567"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "links": [{"title": "Reddit: I am David Graeber, an anthropologist, activist, anarchist and author of Debt. AMA.", "url": "http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/17fi6l/i_am_david_graeber_an_anthropologist_activist/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: Strike! Magazine", "url": "http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Graeber", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Dataspace (german)", "url": "https://ildb.nadir.org/q/autorin/Graeber,+David.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "photos": [8030191, 7334759, 6674062], "birth_date": "12 February 1961", "death_date": "2 September 2020", "personal_name": "David Graeber", "remote_ids": {"amazon": "B001IQXM5K", "goodreads": "29101", "librarything": "graeberdavid-1", "isni": "0000000110388449", "viaf": "12531284", "wikidata": "Q1174579", "storygraph": "eeaf2004-0e98-4fe2-96d6-c3316d404db0", "bookbrainz": "f1c8d964-282c-471c-b9ca-7b0d6f949bf0", "musicbrainz": "db19fd7f-b33c-462e-ae9c-a0d94d0ca329", "lc_naf": "no97027235", "gnd": "136471862", "imdb": "nm4712740", "opac_sbn": "RMSV486610"}, "key": "/authors/OL1395062A", "latest_revision": 30, "revision": 30, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T18:05:28.540893"}}