Anthropologist, author and activist David Graeber dies, aged 59
THE anthropologist, author and anarchist David Graeber died aged 59 on Wednesday, his partner Nika Dubrovsky announced on Twitter today.
Yesterday the best person in a world, my husband and my friend died in a hospital in Venice, Ms Dubrovsky announced.
The cause of death was unknown, but Graeber had tweeted in August that he had been sick for a month with an illness that caused a weird soapy taste in my mouth, exhaustion, stomach [and] lung-ache.
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Graeber was the author of Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Utopia of Rules and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, and worked as a lecturer at the London School of Economics.
He rose to prominence as a left-wing activist during the Occupy movement in 2011 and is credited with coining the term We are the 99 per cent.
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