# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-graeber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:25:26.622Z

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name: "David Graeber"
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description: "David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist social and political activist. His influential work in social and economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time."
tagline: "American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)"
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birthDate: "1961-02-12"
deathDate: "2020-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump