Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams by David Graeber
Published 2001 · 96,800 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams to read?
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams scores 69 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: 70 out of 100
- Technical anthropological and economic vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 72 out of 100
- Long academic sentences with extended digressions.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- One of his most abstract books — value theory across Marx, Mauss and Munn.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Very heavy; a survey of a whole literature alongside an original argument.
How Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams is regarded
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams holds a literary regard score of 61 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.