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Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Updated and Expanded) by David Graeber
3 reviews
theabee's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Moderate: Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and War
gilnean's review
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Antisemitism, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Classism
Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Excrement, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol
lindsaysofia_25's review against another edition
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
I absolutely loved this book. I read it thinking that the information it provided would be valuable but expecting to be bored reading it, especially considering it's 400 pages long + 100 pages of notes/bibliography/index... I was very pleasantly surprised. As Graeber himself says in the afterword, coming at this topic as an anthropologist rather than as an economist or historian gave it a comparative and very human perspective that really added to the book as a whole. The introduction of the concept of communism as the base of human interaction was a tidbit I did not expect from this book but very much appreciate. I certainly see why it won the awards it did! I also must say I appreciate the homage given to feminist historians and other branches of the feminist tradition. This is one of the only nonfiction books I would recommend to friends who don't normally read nonfiction.
Minor: Domestic abuse, Rape, Torture, and Murder
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