Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia - David Graeber (PB) photography Alÿs raises questions about anthropology

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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia - David Graeber (PB) photography Alÿs raises questions about anthropologyThe Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their