Direct Action: An Ethnography
- ISBN-10
- 1904859798
- ISBN-13
- 9781904859796
- Series
- Direct Action
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 568
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- AK Press
- Author
- David Graeber
Description
A radical anthropologist studies the global justice movement.
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