If you only read one anthropological essay, let this be it: Egalitarian Societies by James Woodburn.
Woodburn is largely responsible for laying out the distinctions between hunter-gatherer societies, why some are the most egalitarian societies to ever exist to why sedentary hunter-collector societies had more rigid hierarchies. What this essay says about human nature and our primal anarchy says more than everything in the anarchist cannon.
It is by seeing where hierarchy and power originate that we can find the methods to undo it.
Egalitarian Societies
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