Um projeto de democracia conta a história da resistência do espírito democrático e da adaptabilidade do conceito de democracia, e faz uma defesa apaixonada da ideia de que a democracia radical é, mais do que nunca, nossa melhor esperança.

Em setembro de 2012, com o movimento Occupy Wall Street, que abalou o centro financeiro de Nova York, surgiram centenas de fóruns políticos, nos quais os norte-americanos comuns podiam falar sobre suas preocupações e seus problemas reais, sem necessariamente se basear no discurso dos comentaristas políticos. Com isso, além de de os participantes do Occupy levarem aos políticos demandas e propostas específicas, deram uma amostra do que a verdadeira democracia pode ser, gerando uma crise de legitimidade em todo o sistema.

Neste livro, David Graeber, autor de Debt e um dos intelectuais e ativistas mais influentes de sua geração, conduz o leitor a uma jornada pela ideia de democracia, reorientando provocativamente nossa compreensão a respeito de grandes momentos históricos, dos quais extrai lições para os dias atuais. Diante da concentração cada vez maior da riqueza e do poder, uma democracia reenergizada e reconcebida, baseada no consenso, na igualdade e na ampla participação, ainda pode oferecer a sociedade justa, livre e igualitária que queremos.

Por toda parte o anarquismo encontra-se renascendo, florescendo outra vez enquanto filosofia e prática política de transformação social, futura e cotidiana. Em toda parte, menos na academia. Ativistas e teóricos anarquistas frequentemente recorrem às ciências sociais, mais especificamente à antropologia, atrás de ideias de como a sociedade poderia ser organizada, em busca de formas de vida mais igualitárias e menos alienantes. Frente a esta apropriação, não são poucos os antropólogos que horrorizados, passam a acusá-los de romantismo, quando não respondem… com silêncio. Mas e se não o fizessem?

Este livro pondera sobre quais poderiam ser as respostas, e explora as potencialidades e implicações de vínculos possíveis entre a antropologia e o anarquismo. Nele, Graeber convida os leitores a imaginar como seria este campo de saber que, na atualidade, existe apenas no reino das possibilidades: a antropologia anarquista.

"Faszinierend, provozierend, bahnbrechend. Ein Buch, das in den kommenden Jahren für Diskussionen sorgen wird." Rutger Bregman, Autor von »Utopien für Realisten«

Ein großes Buch von gewaltiger intellektueller Bandbreite: neugierig, visionär und ein Plädoyer für die Macht des direkten Handelns.

David Graeber war der wichtigste Vordenker der Occupy-Bewegung und ein weltbekannter Intellektueller. Er lebte seine Ideen von sozialer Gerechtigkeit und Befreiung, gab den Unterdrückten Hoffnung und inspirierte zahllose andere zur Nachfolge. Am 2. September 2020 starb David Graeber völlig überraschend im Alter von 59 Jahren in Venedig; drei Wochen zuvor hatten er und David Wengrow "Anfänge. Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit" beendet. Vor mehr als zehn Jahren hatten beide Autoren ihre Arbeit an diesem Opus magnum außerhalb ihrer akademischen Verpflichtungen aufgenommen: Ein Anthropologe und ein Archäologe beleben mit dem heute vorhandenen Quellenmaterial den großen Dialog über die menschliche Geschichte wieder. Dieses Meisterwerk ist das Vermächtnis von David Graeber.

Estrondoso sucesso nos Estados Unidos e nos vários países onde foi traduzido, Dívida: os primeiros 5.000 anos é não apenas um dos mais importantes livros de história e antropologia econômicas dos últimos tempos, mas também uma obra fundamental para entender o atual estágio do capitalismo.

Nele, o antropólogo americano David Graeber apresenta em nova perspectiva a história da dívida e do crédito, bem como da origem do dinheiro.

A análise abrangente de Graeber põe em xeque mitos dos estudos econômicos, como o de que o dinheiro teria sido inventado para substituir o escambo. O antropólogo demonstra que, antes mesmo da criação da moeda, existiram civilizações que lidaram com elaborados sistemas de endividamento e comércio.

O aparecimento do dinheiro trouxe consequências violentas para as sociedades, e a dívida, antes ligada à reciprocidade e à troca de favores, tornou-se um instrumento de escravização, dominação e guerra — como continua a ser, ainda hoje.

Uma fascinante e inédita história da civilização emerge neste livro, com ênfase na dimensão social das relações econômicas e uma crítica radical ao modo como o capitalismo, por meio do endividamento, produz controle e destruição.

这是一本由人类学家回应2008年以来金融危机和债务危机的著作。在书中，作者通过“债”这个切入点，以人类学、历史学、社会学的视角揭示5000年来（从文明的初始到全球负债时代）人类的行动规律，债、货币、工作、信用、增长和经济概念本身都是我们开始重新想象的基石。

传统经济学认为，人类从以物易物开始，继而出现货币，货币让人类生活变得更加方便，然后发展出信用体系。大卫·格雷伯对此发起了挑战，分别从货币产生的原因、顺序、目的进行了反常识的思考：货币并不是以“易物”替代者的形式出现的，而是埃及或苏美尔的神职人员为更有效地收税或计算财富而创造出来的。他认为，人类在5000年前已经使用复杂的信用体系而不仅是物物交换来进行商品交易。是金钱让责任和义务变成债务，价格概念和冷漠的市场吞噬了人类彼此关爱的本性。

格雷伯推翻了很多债务领域的经典预设，将5000年的债务史划分出五个阶段：早期的农业帝国（公元前3500—公元前800年）、轴心时代（公元前800—600年）、中世纪（600—1450年）、资本主义帝国时期（1450—1971年）和当今的金融世界（1971年—）。在这些不同的时期，格雷伯认为虚拟货币重复着“出现、消失、再出现、再消失”的状态。

格雷伯认为，一旦我们从道德层面理解了债务的社会起源，就会从多角度处理债务问题，如抵押贷款、信用卡债务、学生贷款，还有国家的债务。作者提出了批判性的解决方案：免除所有国际间的和消费者的债务，并提醒人们还债并非道德核心。富人之间或者国家之间的债务常常会通过重新谈判解决，这几乎贯穿整个世界史。

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.

There are millions of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.

Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation.

Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt 

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms?

To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber—one of the most prominent and provocative thinkers working today—takes a journey through ancient and modern history to trace the peculiar and fascinating evolution of bureaucracy over the ages.

He starts in the ancient world, looking at how early civilizations were organized and what traces early bureaucratic systems have left in the ethnographic literature. He then jets forward to the nineteenth century, where systems we can easily recognize as modern bureaucracies come into being. In some areas of life—like with the modern postal systems of Germany and France—these bureaucracies have brought tremendous efficiencies to modern life. But Graeber argues that there is a much darker side to modern bureaucracy that is rarely ever discussed. Indeed, in our own “utopia of rules,” freedom and technological innovation are often the casualties of systems that we only faintly understand.

Provocative and timely, the book is a powerful look and history of bureaucracy over the ages and its power in shaping the world of ideas.

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.

Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.

There are millions of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.

Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation.

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. Anthropologists, terrified of being accused of romanticism, respond with silence...But what if they didn't? This pamphlet ponders what that response would be and explores the implications of linking anthropology to anarchism. Here, David Graeber invites readers to imagine this discipline that currently only exists in the realm of possibility: anarchist anthropology.

官僚制度原意是一种乌托邦想像, 然而在公, 私部门渐趋模糊, 甚至统合为一的现代国家中, 官僚制度对于人们的干扰不减反增, 引发严重的弊害.本书由结构暴力, 扼杀人类整体创造力与政治价值等三个角度切入, 希望填补左派长久以来对于官僚制度的批判空缺, 更希望能启动对话, 重新检视在现今体制中, 究竟有哪些因素能把我们带往真正自由的社会, 又有哪些因素会让人们逃不出被奴役的命运.

Before there was money, there was debt.

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it.

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy.

Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt

Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

Durante séculos, nossos ancestrais foram considerados primitivos e infantis, sendo divididos em duas categorias: iguais, livres e inocentes ou guerreiros e brutais. Com base no pensamento de Jean-Jacques Rousseau e de Thomas Hobbes, a ideia que perdurou ao longo dos anos foi a de que só poderíamos alcançar a civilização sacrificando essas liberdades ou domesticando nossos instintos mais básicos.

Neste livro revolucionário, o antropólogo David Graeber e o arqueólogo David Wengrow demonstram como essas teorias que emergiram no século XVIII foram uma reação à crítica feita por povos indígenas à sociedade europeia – e por que elas estão erradas. Ao oferecer essa nova perspectiva, os autores questionam tudo o que conhecemos sobre as origens da agricultura, da propriedade, das cidades, da democracia, da escravidão e da própria civilização, iluminando outras formas de liberdade e organização social e nos convidando a imaginar qual futuro desejamos para nós mesmos.

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.

Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.

媲美《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》《人類大歷史》，探討人類文明的開創性巨作
不自由、不平等、國家體制是文明必然終點？
時代百大風雲人物、《債的歷史》作者 大衛﹐格雷伯（David Graeber）
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人文學科最高榮譽Albertus Magnus得主 大衛．溫格羅（David Wengrow）
攜手領航──
一場顛覆文明演進的所有假設、揭示人類全新自由的旅程
「一本顛覆傳統歷史觀，解放思考慣性，開啟無數新研究方向的重磅作品。兩位學者整理了近二、三十年來考古學、民族學的重要發現，對長期以來視為當然的社會演化觀點提出尖銳的質疑，並提出一套新的書寫世界史的可能。無論你是否同意他們壯闊的論證，我們再也無法繼續用過去的方式看待人類的歷史。一本應該要出現在所有人書架上的著作。」
——林開世，台灣大學人類學博物館館長
★★★
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▍內容簡介
有意識地避免可能帶來不平等的制度？人類先祖除了狩獵採集之外或許比我們更能「反思」？
用「生產方式」當作人類史論斷依據會有什麼問題？新石器時代人群如何避免農業？
如果沒有遁入層層階級制度與權力關係，社會將可能發展成何種樣貌？
☀ 回到原點，看見人類社會千變萬化的可能
以嶄新視角理解人類歷史，挑戰社會演進的基本假設：從農業興起、城市到國家的起源、民主與不平等的必然路徑。
揭示將人類從束縛中解放的新可能性，讓我們得以想像不同形式的自由，以及組織社會的新方式。
從狩獵採集逐漸轉為農業，人類從部落、村莊走入城市、國家之中；同時，科技和技術不斷發展，我們穿越了石器時代、金屬器時代，邁向工業革命。一切似乎皆如此清晰明瞭。隨著文明進步而逝的是「高貴野蠻人」狀態的自由和平等，只能犧牲那些原初的自由走向「文明化」，而我們也被迫接受不自由的現狀，視之為進步的必要代價。大衛．格雷伯和大衛．溫格羅卻告訴我們──未必如此，還有其他可能！
藉由開創性的考古學與人類學研究，作者揭示當我們暫且擺脫進步觀點的束縛時，人類歷史將以超乎固有想像、無比有趣的方式展開。人類的先祖既非過著田園詩生活的蒙昧孩子，亦非本性兇殘而不得不設法結盟才能生存下去的野蠻人，而是具有複雜人性、批判性、豐富想像力的人群，在人類史的長河中不斷地變換、拆除、重建制度，實驗社會型態的各種可能，同時避免落入「不自由」的處境。不禁令人反思：我們為何會困在此處？
本書根本性地改變了我們對於人類過去的理解，並提供一條新的思維路徑，讓我們得以想像不同形式的自由，以及組織社會的新方法。兩位作者經過十年的精心醞釀，以極具說服力的廣博知識和強而有力的論點，挑戰過去對歷史進程的解讀方式，為人類開創自由新局帶來了希望。
▍國際好評
這不是一本書。這是一場知識盛宴。沒有一章不（充滿樂趣地）破壞根深柢固的知識信念。本書深刻、毫不費力地顛覆過往、事實嚴謹且讀起來令人愉快。——《黑天鵝效應》作者 納西姆﹒尼可拉斯﹒塔雷伯（Nassim Nicholas Taleb）
作者並不滿足於對人類歷史重大問題的不同答案，堅持要徹底改變我們所提出的問題。結果是帶來一場目眩神迷、獨創而令人信服的陳述，展現了「前現代」原住民生活所體現的豐富、有趣、反思且實驗性的討論，亦是對人類學和考古學思想史具有挑戰性的重寫。本書理應成為所有後續研究這些宏大主題的出發點，那些啟航者將擁有無與倫比的領航員──兩位大衛。——當代人類學大師、《反穀》作者 詹姆斯﹒斯科特（James C. Scott）
引人入勝的探究，引導我們重新思考人類能力的本質，以及人類歷史上最自豪的時刻，還有我們與原住民社會的文化和其中被遺忘的知識分子的交流和借鑑。深具挑戰和啟發。——語言學家、現代語言學之父 諾姆﹒杭士基（Noam Chomsky）
這本書就像一顆炸彈，顛覆了我們對人類歷史的一切觀念。──肯﹒弗雷特（Ken Follett），《每日郵報》
無疑是一部新的人類史，在重新審視史前史的基礎上，慶祝人類的自由與可能性，重啟過去讓創造新的未來有所可能。──歷史學家、「歐威爾政治寫作獎」評審團主席 大衛﹒艾傑頓（David Edgerton）
作者成功地推翻了我對世界歷史的所有思考。本書徹底而優雅地反駁了歷史的進化論，引領我們到一個富有智識、創造力並複雜的人類世界，幾千年來發明了幾乎所有可以想像得到的社會形式，並追求自由、知識和實驗。作者不僅揭穿了進步神話，還講述了一段激動人心的思想史，關於神話是如何產生、為何續存，以及對我們希望創造的公正未來意味著什麼。這是我三十年來讀過的最深刻、最令人興奮的書。──美國歷史學家、《自由夢想》（Freedom Dreams）作者 羅賓﹒凱利（Robin D.G. Kelley）
很可能是這十年來最重要的書，因為它打破了我們社會生活不可避免地由國家主導的深深根深柢固的神話。── 詹姆斯﹒麥克唐納（James H. McDonald），《紐約圖書評論》（New York Journal of Books）

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→挑战《人类简史》《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》背后的基本假设
→直指大历史研究真正应当关注的问题：人类为何会从曾经的灵活陷入如今的僵化，而改变的希望又蕴藏在哪里
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内容简介
思索人类社会的命运时，我们总会借助大历史的广角镜头。可耳熟能详，甚至被默认为公理的人类发展叙事——从人人平等的狩猎采集小游群到现代民族国家，历经“农业革命”“城市革命”“国家起源”等关键节点——真的反映了事实吗？《人类新史》向我们揭示出，这或许只是一个现代版本的起源神话。
两位作者追本溯源，发现上述理论其实源自18世纪美洲原住民对欧洲殖民者的批判，以及欧洲人做出的保守反击。随后，作者们综合考古学和人类学等领域近年来涌现的突破性成果，展示了人类实际上有过怎样多元和流动的社会组织形态，历史的道路又有过多少分岔与并行。重新理解人类的过去，重新发现人类本就拥有的其他可能性，或许也能赋予我们新的思想资源，去想象一个更具希望的未来。
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编辑推荐
◎ 全球已被翻译成30多种语言，获得国内外学者一致推荐
英文版（2021年底）一经推出即成为《纽约时报》畅销书，引发各界热议。知名语言学家和社会活动家乔姆斯基、《黑天鹅》作者塔勒布、《弱者的武器》作者斯科特等国外学者力荐；简体中文版得到陈嘉映、王铭铭、周雪光、张笑宇长文推荐，另有高毅、李宏图、李钧鹏、梁永佳、梁捷、梁文道、施展、王笛、许知远、周濂一致推荐（推荐语和推荐长文均收录于随书附赠的解读册）。
◎ 人类大历史颠覆之作！挑战《人类简史》《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》等传统经典
这本书借助人类学、考古学等领域的最新研究进展，有力质疑了我们所熟知的《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》《人类简史》等经典大历史的基本前提和很多观点，呼吁一种崭新的人类历史书写。农业的发明和城市的出现绝非什么革命性的时刻；环境与技术也不像传统认为的那样决定着文明的命运；人类社会的发展与其说是线性进步（并伴随着相应的代价），不如说是从开放逐渐走向封闭的过程。书中引入了“季节性”“分裂演化”“人类的三种基本自由”“支配三要素”等概念，为我们提供了解释历史的新框架。
◎ 提出“狗屁工作”概念的叛逆学者格雷伯最具野心的重磅遗作
作者之一大卫·格雷伯是著名人类学家和社会活动家，曾是“占领华尔街”运动的重要发起人，以批判官僚主义、资本主义和当代政治而闻名。他在59岁之年（2020年9月2日）突然病逝，去世前3周才完成这部历时10年的合著之作，也代表了他学术思想的巅峰。
◎ 在历史的“垃圾时间”再度振奋起来，重新想象人类的可能性
两位作者在传统叙事框架之外爬梳材料，一点点拼合被忽视或误解的历史碎片：原始人类很可能季节性地在不同的社会秩序之间横跳，而不是固守某一种特定的制度，许多我们以为标志着“文明”的宏伟建筑遗址，其实只是他们季节性地建造又抛弃的东西；数量惊人的早期城市并不存在等级制或中心化的组织方式，却创造了令人惊叹的文化；在一些传统社会，财产权并不意味着你绝对占有某物，而代表着你负有照看它的责任；历史上许多重要发现并不来自概念性突破，而可能来源自日常实践的累积，甚至来自玩乐或仪式……
我们将看到，历史的发展并不存在所谓的正轨，人类社会有过各种有趣的可能性。那些传统从未中断，而它们比当前的主流秩序有着更加悠久和深厚的渊源。
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名人推荐
◎ 这是一场迷人的探寻，引导我们重新思考人类能力的本质……兼具挑战性和启发性。
——[美] 诺姆·乔姆斯基 知名语言学家、哲学家及社会活动家
◎ 《人类新史》应当成为所有关于这类宏大主题的后续作品的起点。那些日后登上此船（“二大卫号”）起航的人，将有两位无与伦比的领航员。
——[美] 詹姆斯·C. 斯科特 耶鲁大学政治学和人类学斯特林荣休教授、《弱者的武器》作者
◎ 这不是一本书，而是一场思想盛宴。书中没有一个章节不在（玩世不恭地）颠覆根深蒂固的思想信念。它既有深度，又轻巧地打破常规，言之有据，值得一读。
——[美] 纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布 《黑天鹅》《反脆弱》作者
◎ ……两百多年来学者用人性的一部分来充当人性的全部的做法是错误的。在作者看来，如果非得历史地追溯人性，那么，我们便先要认识到，并不存在单面人性，一开始，人便具有人性的丰富性。
——王铭铭 北京大学社会学系教授
◎ 我完全赞同作者，我们有必要跳出这些狭隘的套路，更多看到既有生活方式和社会–政治体制的偶然性，从而不再拘囿于这些方式和体制，而去了解和探究它们之外的多种多样的可能性。
——陈嘉映 首都师范大学哲学系特聘教授
◎ 人类社会正进入一个兼具高度不确定性和崭新可能性的时代。在此时此地读此书此主题，可谓恰逢其时。大胆的设想、不同方向的探索与严肃的学术争论，正是作者倡导的返回“自由”的第一步。
——周雪光 斯坦福大学社会学系教授
◎ 当我们面临现存政治经济结构导致的巨大不公，当我们迫于人上人的强大压力而被迫承认我们不想承认的现实，只要我们知道历史永远允许可能性的存在，那么哪怕启蒙时代已然过去，我们依然可以从中汲取巨大的勇气。
——张笑宇 亚洲图书奖得主，“文明三部曲”作者
◎ 因为借力于数十年来人类学和考古学的最新研究成果，此书无疑是对启蒙运动后通行的社会进化理论的一次空前严重的挑战。书中虽然还有不少可以商榷的地方，但作者探索真理的非凡勇气和热忱，他们深厚的专业修养和殷切的社会关怀，都能使我们在阅读中时时感到欲罢不能，感到大有教益。尤其是，透过本书关于人类在进入农业社会之前普遍处于“和谐共生”状态的史实揭示，我们还有可能感悟到启蒙时代出现的“文明”概念的那个长期受到遮蔽的本义。
——高毅 北京大学历史学系教授
◎ 如何用新的眼光看待人类的过去，这是作者写作此书的主旨和目标。通过对人类历史演化中一些基本问题的考察，作者在起源性的追寻中努力破除现有的成见，提出自己的新解。阅读此书，将会扩展人们的视野，激发起我们的深思，如何重塑我们的世界，探寻未来社会变革的可能路径。
——李宏图 复旦大学历史学系教授
◎ 本书的原创性和学术野心令人印象深刻。格雷伯和温格罗挑战的不只是霍布斯和卢梭，更是现代文明史上的标准历史叙事，而他们论证过程中的复杂度和严谨性让人不能不肃然起敬。这本书不仅给了那些“没有历史的人”以应有的声音，而且启发我们深入思考何为善恶、何为人类。
——李钧鹏 华中师范大学社会学院教授，International Sociology Reviews主编
◎ 《人类新史》摧毁了众多学科的根基——原始人神话。当代人类学和考古学研究证明，人类的黎明时代有着惊人的复杂性、灵活性、自由度、思辨力。启蒙思想家为当代社会科学所构想的原始人，在历史和逻辑上都不可能存在过。《人类新史》或许标志着社会科学的新起点。
——梁永佳 浙江大学求是特聘教授
◎ 大卫·格雷伯的著作总能带来意想不到的东西，搅得学界不得安宁。这次回到他的本行，不出意料地又给大家讲述了一个全新的有关人类起源的故事。每次阅读格雷伯，都是一次智识上的重大挑战。
——梁捷 上海财经大学副教授
◎ 这是一部颇具勇气的作品。两位作者本着人文精神，挑战了传统大历史叙事中的一些基本参照系。书中呼唤的对人性与文明的新理解，值得我们深入思考。
——施展 大观学者，上海外国语大学全球文明史研究所教授
◎ 本书是人类学家大卫·格雷伯和考古学家大卫·温格罗思想碰撞的结晶，他们利用考古学和人类学的开创性研究，带领我们重新审视人类文明和世界历史，从根本上改变了我们对人类文明起源的理解。他们抛弃过去占主导地位的那种宏大叙事，利用清晰、有力、有趣、丰富的考古学和民族志的细节，提供了一系列崭新而且引人入胜的见解，揭示了我们过去对人类历史理解存在的极大的误区。在优美而且通俗易懂的散文式的描述中，人类多种形式的存在和进化的故事徐徐地展现在读者的眼前。
——王笛 澳门大学历史系讲席教授

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