Law as Refuge of Anarchy: Societies Without Hegemony or S...
Amborn, Hermann / West, Adrian Nathan
Over the course of history, people have developed many varieties of communal life, the state, with its hierarchical structure, is only one of the possibilities for society. In this book, leading anthropologist Hermann Amborn identifies a countermodel to the state, describing communities where reciprocity is a dominant social principle and where egalitarianism is a matter of course. He pays particular attention to such communities in the Horn o...