Harold B. Barclay is professor emeritus in anthropology

Anthropology

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 at the University of Alberta

University of Alberta

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, Edmonton

Edmonton

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, Alberta

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. His research has focussed on rural society in modern Egypt

Egypt

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 and the northern Arab Sudan

Sudan

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 as well as political anthropology

Political anthropology

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 and anthropology of religion

Anthropology of religion

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He is also commonly acknowledged as a notable writer in anarchist

Anarchism

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 theory, specialising in theories

Anarcho-primitivism

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involving the destruction of the state and how society would operate if leaderless.

Select bibliography

1. Buurri al Lamaab, a suburban village in the Sudan. Cornell studies in anthropology. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1964.
2. The role of the horse in man's culture. London: J.A. Allen, 1980. ISBN 0851313299
3. Culture: the human way. Calgary. Alta., Canada: Western Publishers, 1986. ISBN 0919119115
4. People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy, rev. ed., Seattle: Left Bank Books, 1990. ISBN 0-939306-09-3.
5. Culture and anarchism. London: Freedom Press, 1997. ISBN 0900384840
6. The state. London: Freedom Press, 2003. ISBN 1904491006
7. Longing for Arcadia: memoirs of an anarcho-cynicalist anthropologist. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005. ISBN 1412056799