![]() Graeber, who lived in London and was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, has frequently been dubbed an "anarchist anthropologist," but, in his Twitter bio, he wrote that he saw "anarchism as something you do not an identity," and asked people not to use the label to describe him. ![]() In his website bio, Graeber wrote that he "only really became active in any meaningful way" after working involved with the alter-globalization movement at the beginning of the 2000s. Occupy and activismīorn and raised in New York City, Graeber identified as the son of working-class parents, and in his career he sought to harness his anthropological training to better understand economics. The economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis quoted Graeber's work on debt in a tweet. ![]() On August 28, he told followers of his YouTube account that he had been "under the weather." He was still active on Twitter until the day he died, September 2. The cause of his death has not been confirmed. ![]() He was an important voice in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began in 2011 in the heart of New York City's financial district.ĭubrovsky and Graeber were on holiday in Venice, Italy, when the 59-year-old author and activist died on Wednesday. The anthropologist and influential anarchist intellectual David Graeber has died, his wife, Nika Dubrovsky, confirmed on Thursday. ![]()
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