Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

Table of 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

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