Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
Published 1900 · 36,300 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology to read?
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology scores 55 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
- Accessible, with anthropological and political terms.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Conversational, pamphlet-like sentences.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- A programmatic sketch rather than a worked case; largely conceptual.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Short, but it moves quickly across a lot of ground.
How Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology is regarded
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology holds a literary regard score of 56 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.