- Paperback: 469 pages
- Publisher: Indiana University Press (15 Aug 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0253219159
- ISBN-13: 978-0253219152
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,050,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Offers fascinating comparative material with other places where the wound of past injustices continues to fester and destroy... A brilliant weaving together of history and the anthropology of participant observation... The style is limpid, funny, and a delight." Maurice Bloch "The political intrigue makes for a compelling narrative. Committed to showing the power of stories, Graeber is very capable of telling a story of his own... a brilliant study in the classic anthropological tradition..." Michael Lambek
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Betafo, a rural community in central Madagascar, is divided between the descendants of nobles and descendants of slaves. Anthropologist David Graeber arrived for fieldwork at the height of tensions attributed to a disastrous communal ordeal two years earlier. As Graeber uncovers the layers of historical, social, and cultural knowledge required to understand this event, he elaborates a new view of power, inequality, and the political role of narrative. Combining theoretical subtlety, a compelling narrative line, and vividly drawn characters, Lost People is a singular contribution to the anthropology of politics and the literature on ethnographic writing.
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AS ABOVE, SO BELOW, AS THERE, SO HERE
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I love this book. The description of political action in primitive rural Madagascar matches closely political life in the U.S., as in: "The formal political sphere has become a sphere where nothing is supposed to happen...elders deliver speeches with practically nothing in the way of propositional content, full of proverbial wisdom, sentiments which no sane person could possibly disagree with. Nothing is openly debated, nothing decided." As well as being a work of considerable scholarship, this book is funny on almost every page as it is packed with an array of fascinating characters, whom Graeber clearly likes and I do too. I only got this book while I was in line to get a library copy of his book Debt, and I'm glad I did. Graeber is a natural writer, and the more I got into it, the more I wanted to get into it. The characters are quirky and it helps to like quirky to like this book, but also I'm learning a great deal about the mechanisms of politics everywhere.
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