- 286 pages
- English
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About this book
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. Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works.
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World HistoryTable of contents
- Introductory Quotes
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Take Me to Your Leader: The Politics of Alien Invasion
- II. Ze Germans: A State-Making Technology
- III. Save Me from Yourself: The Statist Spread of Salvation Religions
- IV. Sleeper States and Imperial Imaginaries: Authority’s Afterlife and Reincarnation
- V. The Modern State: A Revolutionary Hybrid
- VI. Zomia: A Topography of Positionality
- VII. Chiefdoms and Megacommunities: On the Stability of Non-State Hierarchies
- VIII. They Ain’t Got No Class: Surpluses and the State
- IX. All in the Family: Kinship and Statehood
- X. Building the Walls Higher: From Raiding to Warfare
- XI. Staff and Sun: A New Symbolic Order
- XII. A Forager’s Mecca: Dreams of Power
- XIII. From Clastres to Cairo to Kobane: Learning from States
- Bibliography
- Index
- Advance praise for Worshiping Power
- Copyright
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