Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation
by Peter Gelderloos
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Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo. Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization. Gelderloos's partisan approach to human social complexity is highly innovative, yet comprehensible to the layperson. A formidable assault on a social institution whose contemporary ubiquity show more renders it almost invisible. Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works. show lessTags
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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- 320.101 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government The State
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- GN492.6 .G45 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Anthropology Anthropology Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology Cultural traits, customs, and institutions
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