> On Aug 6, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Jason McVetta <jason.mcve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2017 18:00, "Zenaan Harkness" <z...@freedbms.net> wrote: > > This might sound exceptionally unusual to those who have not > experienced this absud and strange type of human behaviour, but this > "ledger keeping" or "documentation of barter" simply does NOT happen > - not even in "modern 2017 Australia". > > > Who cares if some city-dwelling accountant type is not aware of such > basic rural human realities? > > Not all known actually-existing societies have been based on accountancy - > which is nearly, but not quite, the same thing as being based on the State. > > Pierre Clastres gives a fascinating description of non-state societies among > "primitive" (pre-urbanization) peoples in The Archaeology of Violence. > Available free at https://muse.jhu.edu/book/21784
That link is no good, not the Clastres (nor free) You can get a rather poor quality scan at: https://monoskop.org/File:Clastres_Pierre_Archeology_of_Violence.pdf
