Bibliograph

Worshiping power, an anarchist view of early state formation, Peter Gelderloos

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Worshiping power, an anarchist view of early state formation, Peter Gelderloos

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Worshiping power

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Peter Gelderloos

Sub title

an anarchist view of early state formation

Summary

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 renders it almost invisible

Target audience

adult

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Anarchist view of early state formation

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