c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…America or Canada. This would be the case. There's a famous Maori story that I always like to tell about this guy named Te Renga, who was this notorious glutton. And he's kind of a lazy guy, didn't do much fishing, but he would always walk around on…
…to refuse a request for food. There's this wonderful story I always like to repeat about a Maori story about this guy named Te Renga who sort of abused the system too much. He was famous for walking along the beach and whenever somebody would come back…
…break out of it. I mean, there's a great story I always tell from New Zealand, a Maori story about a guy named Te Renga. He was a notorious glutton. He rarely did much fishing himself. Everybody else in the neighborhood was a fisherman. And he would…