Anarchist Anthropology Flashcards
Peter Kropotkin
“Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution”
David Graeber
“Debt: The First 5000 Years,” “The Democracy Project,” “Bullshit Jobs,” “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology”
Graeber explored the ways in which societies organise themselves without centralised authority and examined the historical roots and contemporary implications of debt and economic systems.
Pierre Clastres
“Society Against the State”; studies of indigenous societies in South America, particularly those that operate without centralised state structures = many societies actively resist the formation of state authority and their social organisation can be understood as a form of political resistance to hierarchical control.