Another of his books argues that credit has remained the most prestigious form of lending, since barter and cash are reserved for interaction with the less trusted, and that this has been true since Sumerian civilization.
This thinker's work on Madagascar includes extensive studies of the almost-stateless existence of the Tsimihety people and his dissertation on a former slave village, titled Lost People. This non- Jaspers thinker argue that money came to prominence during the Axial Age as a way to measure "human economies" in a book which notes the double-meaning of the German word Schuld, or "guilt." This thinker, who argued that the basis of most social life is "everyday communism", said there was an "elective affinity" between (*) anarchist programs and anthropology in his monograph Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Another of his books argues that credit has remained the most prestigious form of lending, since barter and cash are reserved for interaction with the less trusted, and that this has been true since Sumerian civilization. For 10 points, name this author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value and Debt: The First 5000 Years.
This thinker's work on Madagascar includes extensive studies of the almost-stateless existence of the Tsimihety people and his dissertation on a former slave village, titled Lost People.
David Graeber