About the book: year / The last and posthumously published book by the American anthropologist David Graeber (1961–2020) is the result of his expedition to Madagascar, where he went , while a graduate student at the University of Chicago. In his work, Graeber sharply criticizes the Eurocentric view, according to which “savage peoples” can become civilized only as a result of competent management of Europeans. This book is a bold attempt to return anthropology and ethnography to its original purpose: the search for an alternative view of the development of society and culture. Graeber “decolonizes the Enlightenment,” arguing that the origins of the ideas of equality, freedom and justice should be sought outside of “Western civilization.” He unequivocally states that those same fictional egalitarian “pirate kingdoms” like Libertalia somehow existed in reality. Using the example of the Betzimisaraka Confederation, Graeber describes the structure of a real project of a “society of the future”, about which Thomas More and other authors of utopias only fantasized.