• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Rest in power, comrade. 2020 takes another.

    Rather than recommending Bullshit Jobs or Debt, I think more people should read his On Kings (co-authored with Marshall Sahlins). A truly amazing account of all the ways our specific form of kingship has poisoned our minds and still reverberates in the supposedly post-monarchy era, and how many different peoples across the world conceived of kingship and sovereignty differently.

    • NeoAnabaptist [any]
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      4 years ago

      On Kings is brilliant and way more anthropologically dense than his other work. I wouldn't say it's necessarily aimed at a lay audience, but you can still slog your way through it. This is such a shitty loss though.

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah it's definitely not a casual "hmmm what shall I read tonight" kind of book, but I truly do love it. The dense-ness made it only more impressive in my eyes, since as a lay person who is not an anthropologist I was still able to make it through and take away tons of insights. Huge loss.