Anarchism and the Archaeology of Anarchic Societies

摘要: Throughout human history, people have lived in societies without formalized government. We argue that the theory of anarchism presents a productive framework for analyzing decentralized societies. Anarchism encompasses broad array interrelated principles organizing centralization authority. Moreover, its history emphasizes an ongoing and active resistance to concentrations power. present anarchist analysis development social power, authority, status within Coast Salish region Northwest Coast. peoples exhibited complex displays chiefly authority class stratification but centralized political organization. Ethnographically, their sociopolitical formation is unique allowing majority “high-class” minority commoners slaves, or what Wayne Suttles described as “inverted-pear” society. this structure through cranial def...