In some cultures, people are aware of few alternatives, but those alternatives are open to all. In others there is a wide range of choices, but the range is not available to everybody. The question --which type of culture gives more freedom to its inhabitants--causes us to think about what we mean by freedom. This book provokes thought throughout, citing actual examples from the author's encyclopaedic knowledge of different cultures. Not just native cultures. The book also studies the cultures of anarchic communities which are deliberately created within 'modern' society, and discusses how closely the ideas of Josiah Warren, who initiated such communities, and Proudhon correspond to anarchism in the complete sense.
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United States, New York, Big Man, True Civilization, North America, Josiah Warren, Pierre Clastres, Practical Details, Current Anthropology, New Guinea, British Columbia, Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, South America, Elizabeth Colson, Free Press, Henry Orenstein, Ralph Linton, Virginia Hine, Walden Two New!
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North American anthropology has traditionally organised its principal subject matter - the behaviour, history and diversity of human beings - around a central unifying concept of culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Big Man, True Civilization, North America, Josiah Warren, Pierre Clastres, Practical Details, Current Anthropology, New Guinea, British Columbia, Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, South America, Elizabeth Colson, Free Press, Henry Orenstein, Ralph Linton, Virginia Hine, Walden Two New!
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- Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres on 5 pages
- Kings and Councillors: An Essay in the Comparative Anatomy of Human Society (Classics in Anthropology) by A. M. Hocart on page 102, page 108, and page 156
- People Without Government by Harold Barclay in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 70
- General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century by P.-J. Proudhon on page 102, and page 156
- Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century by Eric R. Wolf on page 142, and Back Matter
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