Dan Clore wrote:
>
> Howard Olson wrote:
>
> > Right, Brian. In PEOPLE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT: An Anthropology of
> > Anarchy , Dr. Harold Barclay supports the contention of most other
> > anthropologists that hunter-gatherers and most other social organization
> > of humans were stateless.
> Well, I guess I'm not the only person in the world who's read Barclay's
> book after all. Another reference on the subject is John Zerzan's MODERN
> PRIMITIVE, which also notes that many hunter-gatherer societies lack
> division of labor entirely, both sexes engaging in both activities (the
> usual division in those that have it being men hunting and women
> gathering).
>
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I have lost my copy of Barclay's second edition and I guess its
out of print. But anyway, I think a lot of anthropologists recognize
that stateless societies predominate throughout history. Unfortunately,
many then unjustifiably then go on to exhort the State as the pinnacle of
civilization.....
Howard
