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“... Well, yes: to six-year-olds who grow up anywhere in the world of scientific reason, what Marshall Sahlins calls ‘the world system’. It is part of our scientific attitude that what we find out about people using any of the seven engines of discovery, and more, is a fixed target. We usually hit something, and then we say that what we hit was ...”

“... the Malagasy in the rural community of Betafo, Madagascar, conducted in the early 1990s under Marshall Sahlins’s supervision, was eventually published as Lost People (2007) and explored manifestations of historical trauma among descendants of slaves and slaveholders. It is difficult to overstate how formative this was for Graeber’s politics. Here ...”