People Without Government: An Anthropology of AnarchyAnarchy, as the absence of government, is neither chaos nor some impossible Utopian dream. In fact it is a very common form of political organisation and one which has characterised much of the human past. People Without Government describes briefly the anarchic political structures of a number of these societies. True they are mainly small-scale hunting, gathering and horticultural groups. However, the social organisation of certain large populations with complex relations is also sometimes anarchic. Thus anarchy applies to a broad spectrum of different kinds of societies. |
Contents
Preface by Alex Comfort 73 | 11 |
On the Nature of Anarchy | 15 |
Some Observations on Procedure | 35 |
Anarchy among HunterGatherers | 39 |
Anarchist Gardeners | 55 |
Anarchist Herders | 83 |
Anarchy in Agricultural Societies | 93 |
Anarchy in the Modern World | 108 |
Do Anarchic Politics have a Message? | 121 |
Bibliography | 151 |
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