List of stateless societies

Society	From	Until	Duration	Ideology	Ref.
Essenes	150 BCE	66 CE	Template:Ayd	Judaism	^[1]
Frisian freedom	800	1523	Template:Ayd	Antifeudalism	^[2]
Icelandic Commonwealth	930	1262	Template:Ayd	Direct democracy	^[3]
Taborites	25 March 1420	1452	Template:Ayd	Radical Hussitism	^[4]
Republic of Cospaia	29 June 1440	5 May 1826	Template:Ayd	Republicanism	^[5]
Golden Age of Piracy	October 1650	12 July 1726	Template:Ayd	Piracy	^[6]
South Carolina Commune	4 February 1868	10 March 1874	Template:Ayd	Civil rights	^[7]

Indigenous societies[edit | edit source]

Flag	Society	Provisioning system	Homeland	Ref.
	Aboriginal Australians	Various	Australia	^[8]
	Amazigh	Agricultural	Maghreb	^[8]
	Andamanese	Hunter-gatherer	Andaman Islands	^[9]
	Anga	Horticultural	Jos Plateau	^[10]
	Anuak	Horticultural	Anuak Zone, Gambela	^[8]
	Bassa	Subsistence agriculture	Bassaland	^[10]
	Berom	Subsistence agriculture	Jos Plateau	^[10]
	Birifor		Volta	^[10]
	Bobo	Subsistence agriculture	Bobo-Dioulasso	^[10]
	Cherokee	Agricultural	Cherokee Nation	^[11]
	Croatan	Subsistence agriculture	Croatan Sound	^[12]
	Dan	Agricultural	Man	^[10]
	Dayak	Agricultural	Borneo	^[8]
	Dogon	Subsistence agriculture	Dogon country	^[10]
File:Flag of Cross River State.png	Ekoi	Horticultural	Ekoi land	^[10]
	Gagu^{[page needed]}	Pastoral agriculture		^[10]
	Grebo		Grebo land	^[10]
	Hopi	Agricultural	Hopi Nation	^[13]
	Ibibio	Horticultural	Akwa Ibom	^[10]
	Idoma	Hunter-gatherer	Benue	^[10]
	Ifugao	Horticultural	Ifugao	^[8]
	Igbo	Horticultural	Igboland	^[14]^[10]
File:Flag of Rivers State.png	Ijaw	Horticultural	Niger Delta	^[10]
	Inuit	Hunter-gatherer	Arctic	^[8]
	Kissi	Subsistence agriculture	Guinea Highlands	^[10]
	Konkomba	Horticultural	Northern Ghana	^[8]^[10]
	Kru	Fishing	Grand Kru County	^[10]
	Kusasi		Kasaug Traditional Area	^[10]
	Lugbara	Subsistence agriculture	West Nile	^[8]
	Mamprusi		East Mamprusi	^[10]
	Mano	Horticultural	Nimba County	^[10]
	Mapuche	Pastoral agriculture	Araucanía	^[15]
File:Flag of Vihiga County.png	Maragoli		Vihiga County	^[10]
	Mbuti	Hunter-gatherer	Ituri Rainforest	^[16]
	Niitsitapi	Hunter-gatherer	Blackfeet Nation	^[17]
	Nubian	Agricultural	Nubia	^[18]
	Nuer	Pastoralism	Nuer Zone, Gambela	^[10]
	Pequot	Agricultural	Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation	^[19]
	Piaroa	Subsistence agriculture	Orinoco	^[20]
	Puliklah	Hunter-gatherer	Yurok Indian Reservation	^[8]
	Tallensi	Horticultural	Tallensi Traditional Area	^[10]
	Plateau Tonga	Subsistence agriculture	Binga	^[8]
	Quinnipiac	Hunter-gatherer	Quinnipiac River	^[21]
	Sami	Pastoralism	Sápmi	^[8]
	San	Hunter-gatherer	Central Kalahari	^[22]
	Santals	Agricultural	Jharkhand	^[8]
	Semai	Subsistence agriculture	Perak	^[23]
	Seminoles	Hunter-gatherer	Seminole Nation	^[24]
	Shona	Subsistence agriculture	Mashonaland	^[10]
File:Flag of Nasarawa State.png	Tiv	Horticultural	Tivland	^[8]^[10]
File:Flag of Delta State.png	Urhbo	Subsistence agriculture	Niger Delta	^[10]
	Zomia			^[25]

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Kautsky, Karl (1953). Foundations of Christianity. Vol. Book Three. Translated by Henry F. Mins. ISBN 978-0-902869-93-6.
↑ Gelderloos, Peter (2010). "What about global environmental problems, like climate change?". Anarchy Works. San Francisco: Ardent Press.
↑ Barclay, Harold (1990). People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy. Seattle: Left Bank Books. pp. 93–96.
↑ Cohn, Norman (1970). The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages. London: Paladin. pp. 207–208.
↑ Milani, Giuseppe; Selvi, Giovanna (1996). "Tra Rio e Riascolo: piccola storia del territorio libero di Cospaia". Lama di San Giustino: Associazione genitori oggi: 18. OCLC 848645655. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
↑ Leeson, Peter T. (2007). "An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization" (PDF). Journal of Political Economy, George Mason University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
↑ W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 449.
↑ ^8.00 ^8.01 ^8.02 ^8.03 ^8.04 ^8.05 ^8.06 ^8.07 ^8.08 ^8.09 ^8.10 ^8.11 ^8.12 Barclay, Harold (1990). People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy. Seattle: Left Bank Books.
↑ John Zerzan, Future Primitive Revisisted (Port Townsend: Feral House, 2012), 13-14.
↑ ^10.00 ^10.01 ^10.02 ^10.03 ^10.04 ^10.05 ^10.06 ^10.07 ^10.08 ^10.09 ^10.10 ^10.11 ^10.12 ^10.13 ^10.14 ^10.15 ^10.16 ^10.17 ^10.18 ^10.19 ^10.20 ^10.21 ^10.22 ^10.23 ^10.24 ^10.25 Mbah, Sam (2001). African Anarchism: The History of a Movement.
↑ Perdue, Theda (2007). The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York: Penguin Books.
↑ "Indian Towns and Buildings of Eastern North Carolina", Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, National Park Service, 2008, Retrieved 24 April 2010.
↑ Eggan, Fred, Social Organization of the Western Pueblos (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960)
↑ Emmanuel C. Onyeozili and Obi N. I. Ebbe, “Social Control in Precolonial Igboland of Nigeria”, African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies (2012)
↑ Zibechi, Raúl (2010). Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements. Oakland: AK Press.
↑ Turnbull, Colin (1968). The Forest People. New York: Simon & Schuster.
↑ Ladner, Kiera (2003). "Governing Within an Ecological Context: Creating an Alternative Understanding of Blackfoot Governance". Studies in Political Economy. 70: 137–150. doi:10.1080/07078552.2003.11827132. S2CID 151545741.
↑ Robert Fernea, “Putting a Stone in the Middle: the Nubians of Northern Africa,” in Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry (eds.), Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 111.
↑ William A. Starna, “Pequots in the Early Seventeenth Century” in ed. Laurence M. Hauptman and James D. Wherry, The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation (Norman and London: University of Oakland Press, 1990), 42.
↑ Graeber, David (2004). Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Chicago: Prickly Paradigms Press. pp. 26–27.
↑ John Menta, The Quinnipiac: Cultural Conflict in Southern New England (New Haven: Yale University, 2003)
↑ Lee, Richard (2003). The Dobe Ju/hoansi. Thomas Learning/Wadsworth.
↑ Robert K. Dentan, The Semai: A Nonviolent People of Malaya. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
↑ Greg Urban, “The Social Organizations of the Southeast,” in ed. Raymond J. Demallie and Alfonso Ortiz, North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), 175-178.
↑ Scott, James (2009). The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: University of Yale Press.

[1] Kautsky, Karl (1953). Foundations of Christianity. Vol. Book Three. Translated by Henry F. Mins. ISBN 978-0-902869-93-6.

[2] Gelderloos, Peter (2010). "What about global environmental problems, like climate change?". Anarchy Works. San Francisco: Ardent Press.

[3] Barclay, Harold (1990). People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy. Seattle: Left Bank Books. pp. 93–96.

[4] Cohn, Norman (1970). The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages. London: Paladin. pp. 207–208.

[5] Milani, Giuseppe; Selvi, Giovanna (1996). "Tra Rio e Riascolo: piccola storia del territorio libero di Cospaia". Lama di San Giustino: Associazione genitori oggi: 18. OCLC 848645655. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[arrgh-6] Leeson, Peter T. (2007). "An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization" (PDF). Journal of Political Economy, George Mason University. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[7] W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 449.

[:4-8] 8.00 ^8.01 ^8.02 ^8.03 ^8.04 ^8.05 ^8.06 ^8.07 ^8.08 ^8.09 ^8.10 ^8.11 ^8.12 Barclay, Harold (1990). People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy. Seattle: Left Bank Books.

[9] John Zerzan, Future Primitive Revisisted (Port Townsend: Feral House, 2012), 13-14.

[:Africa-10] 10.00 ^10.01 ^10.02 ^10.03 ^10.04 ^10.05 ^10.06 ^10.07 ^10.08 ^10.09 ^10.10 ^10.11 ^10.12 ^10.13 ^10.14 ^10.15 ^10.16 ^10.17 ^10.18 ^10.19 ^10.20 ^10.21 ^10.22 ^10.23 ^10.24 ^10.25 Mbah, Sam (2001). African Anarchism: The History of a Movement.

[11] Perdue, Theda (2007). The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York: Penguin Books.

[12] "Indian Towns and Buildings of Eastern North Carolina", Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, National Park Service, 2008, Retrieved 24 April 2010.

[13] Eggan, Fred, Social Organization of the Western Pueblos (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960)

[14] Emmanuel C. Onyeozili and Obi N. I. Ebbe, “Social Control in Precolonial Igboland of Nigeria”, African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies (2012)

[15] Zibechi, Raúl (2010). Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements. Oakland: AK Press.

[16] Turnbull, Colin (1968). The Forest People. New York: Simon & Schuster.

[17] Ladner, Kiera (2003). "Governing Within an Ecological Context: Creating an Alternative Understanding of Blackfoot Governance". Studies in Political Economy. 70: 137–150. doi:10.1080/07078552.2003.11827132. S2CID 151545741.

[18] Robert Fernea, “Putting a Stone in the Middle: the Nubians of Northern Africa,” in Graham Kemp and Douglas P. Fry (eds.), Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World, New York: Routledge, 2004, p. 111.

[19] William A. Starna, “Pequots in the Early Seventeenth Century” in ed. Laurence M. Hauptman and James D. Wherry, The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation (Norman and London: University of Oakland Press, 1990), 42.

[20] Graeber, David (2004). Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Chicago: Prickly Paradigms Press. pp. 26–27.

[21] John Menta, The Quinnipiac: Cultural Conflict in Southern New England (New Haven: Yale University, 2003)

[22] Lee, Richard (2003). The Dobe Ju/hoansi. Thomas Learning/Wadsworth.

[23] Robert K. Dentan, The Semai: A Nonviolent People of Malaya. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979

[24] Greg Urban, “The Social Organizations of the Southeast,” in ed. Raymond J. Demallie and Alfonso Ortiz, North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994), 175-178.

[25] Scott, James (2009). The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. New Haven: University of Yale Press.

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