David Graeber - Delivers a talk on 'indigenous' peoples.

LSE Terra Society was pleased to present David Graeber, who discussed some of the ideas set out in 'Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology' as part of Indigenous Genius week at the London School of Economics.

Whilst Indigenous cultures are often labelled 'pre-capitalist' and 'pre-state' in popular understandings, we hope to explore how these societies, rather than representing an earlier stage of an inevitable progression, actively work to stop these forms from emerging.

We feel this offers an example of what we can learn from indigenous societies, and supports the case for valuing different epistemologies and therefore making provisions for them to exist, rather than assuming that everyone would, and should, rather join our capitalist state model of existence; particularly at a point when this model is proving so destructive.

[GroundThing]

15:55 I've been in a few leadership roles in my day, and this was basically how I felt most comfortable leading, even before I became an anarchist. This anecdote is one of the things that always has me coming back to this video. RIP David Graeber.

[jayarava]

The book with Wengrow is now out and called The Dawn of Everything. It is amazing!

[LukeMcGuireoides]

RIP, David. This man was a total badass

[coleburkhardt]

This lecture was amazing David you are sorely missed ❤️

[Cyberphunkisms]

Hello!

I will be releasing a defense of Graeber in soon time on my channel since I am from nomadic traditions.

Thanks!

[jeremiahjoseph]

Very enjoyable and encouraging! I honor this man’s work

[marktomasetti]

When we need to rewrite our future, first we have to rewrite our past. Thank goodness anthropologists & archeologists are on the job.

[Mark_and_Family]

At about 9:50 Graeber says Algonquins refused to use kayaks, and then that inuits refused to use snowshoes "[because of their grudge as neighbors]". Can someone please tell me Graeber's source for that?

[oliverburke]

Good talk - I wonder if Graeber has read James C. Scott's "The Art of Not Being Governed" ...

[castellasants]

Is there any transcription of these conference?

[AudioPervert]

The New Green History of the world by Clive Pointing, explains in great detail, the last 10, 000 years of human civilisation and colonisation. And why it keeps collapsing every time...

[PetitPoneyArcEnCiel]

Anyone could figure who he is talking about around the 10.40 mark? hokin bay? can't find his name^^

[davidwilkie]

Professor Steve Keen rediscovered the distinction between public and private debt, which can be analogous to the application of "moral" Gold-Silver social balance Diplomacy, and responsibility for people and property, a self in Self defining of our ecological circumstances in a "Balance of Nature" circumstance.
What is Exogenous Debt?

Professors of MMT Provisioning strategies suggest that Government debt is National, divided and allocated by politico-social standards, but Professor Keen has identified Bank Lending institutions as a direct Causality by inverting responsibility for ownership of governance responsibilities, ie Democracy isn't working because Financial Capitalism rules economics.
All this is an accompaniment to the interpretation of the chaos of Anarchy prelude that preceeds a democratically Informed Public, David Graeber alludes to.

[tracksuitjim]

what's the book on the origin of social inequality? would love to read that.

[burnsculpt]

some great ideas, hard to hear with the atrocious audio and his coughing. Still, a rare gem from a force for good....

[finn]

stating something obvious, but bro coughing kinda started to get funny 👐

[wmgthilgen]

At what point does a person or person's and or groups of person's become considered to be indigenous? I was informed once during a legal battle with an employer, who for the reason of being mandated by the government to promote the indiginious humans referred to as NATIVE AMERICAN's because I was birthed in the U.S.A. and not somewhere else, declared myself to be. And thus qualified to apply for the promotion, which is what they disagreed with.

The issue was finally resolved and I did indeed get promoted, when because my employer's legal team stated that it isn't the fact that I was birthed in the U.S.A. it was based on my liniage that determines one being considered indigenious. After which I agreed and stated that I was incorrect in my regarding my self as a Native American, and wish to change it to being African American aka in the U.S.A. as black. Because if and when it depends on ones lineage, and the fact that everyone alive today lineage can be traced back to the Middle West Coast of Africa. I'm actualy African who now resides in the U.S.A.

[thaddeusexmachina]

alexander the great's curly locks vs. the beady rat eyed, straight black hairs of those living in his place of origin now. who is the indigenous person?

[thaddeusexmachina]

i suspect there's something about the syntax of the syllables 'in-di' that automatically inspires contempt. the only truly 'in-di' people were the ones that began the foundations of civilization in the first place, and the rest of humanity exists as sort of subhuman malcontents placed there intentionally as civilization's failure to rule and structure itself wanes.

[lucysfrost]

His analysis is weak and the way he romanticizes Indigenous people is concerning. Centre Indigenous voices and get real.