Harold Barclay
American educator (1924–2017)
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Harold B. Barclay (January 3, 1924[1] – 20 December 2017) was a professor emeritus in anthropology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.[2] His research focused on rural society in modern Egypt and the northern Arab Sudan, political anthropology and the anthropology of religion.[3] He is also commonly acknowledged as a notable writer in anarchist theory, specialising in theories involving the structure and oppressive systems of the state and how society would operate without a formal government.[3]
Born
January 3, 1924
Harold Barton Barclay
January 3, 1924
DiedDecember 20, 2017 (aged 93)
EducationStockbridge School of Agriculture
Harold Barclay | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harold Barton Barclay January 3, 1924 |
| Died | December 20, 2017 (aged 93) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Thesis | Buurri al Lamaab: A Suburban Village in the Sudan (1961) |
| Influences | Ruth Benedict |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Political anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Alberta |
Main interests | Anarchism |
Select bibliography
- Buurri al Lamaab, is a suburban village in Sudan. Cornell studies in anthropology. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1964.
- The role of the horse in man's culture. London: J.A. Allen, 1980. ISBN 0-85131-329-9
- Culture: the human way. Calgary. Alta., Canada: Western Publishers, 1986. ISBN 0-919119-11-5
- Anthropology and Anarchism. Cambridge: the Anarchist Encyclopaedia, 1986.
- People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy, rev. ed., Seattle: Left Bank Books, 1990. ISBN 0-939306-09-3.
- Culture and anarchism. London: Freedom Press, 1997. ISBN 0-900384-84-0
- The state. London: Freedom Press, 2003. ISBN 1-904491-00-6
- Longing for Arcadia: memoirs of an anarcho-cynicalist anthropologist. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2005. ISBN 1-4120-5679-9
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