Harold Barclay

Harold Barton Barclay (born January 3, 1924 in Newton , Massachusetts , † December 20, 2017 in Vernon , British Columbia ) was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton , Alberta .

Life

Barclay began his studies in anthropology at Harvard University in Boston , continued it at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York , and received his doctorate there in 1961 with a thesis on the ethnography of a Sudanese village. He then lectured at the American University in Cairo and at the University of Oregon . From 1966 until his retirement he was a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta.

His research focused on rural society in modern Egypt and northern Arab Sudan, and he continued to focus on political anthropology and the anthropology of religion. Barclay was also a writer of anarchist theories; he specialized in theories about the destruction of the state and how society would function without a leader. In the German-speaking area he became through his book Peoples without government; an anthropology of anarchy (1985) known.

Works (selection)

• Buurri al Lamaab, a suburban village in the Sudan. Cornell studies in anthropology. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY 1964.
• The role of the horse in man's culture. JA Allen, London 1980, ISBN 0-85131-329-9
• Culture: the human way. Calgary. Canada: Western Publishers, Alta 1986, ISBN 0-919119-11-5
• People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy . rev. ed. Left Bank Books, Seattle 1990, ISBN 0-939306-09-3 , 1st edition 1982; German transl .: peoples without government. An anthropology of anarchy. Libertad Verlag , West Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-922226-10-8 .
• Culture and anarchism. Freedom Press, London 1997, ISBN 0-900384-84-0
• The state. Freedom Press, London 2003, ISBN 1-904491-00-6
• Longing for Arcadia: memoirs of an anarcho-cynicalist anthropologist. Trafford, Victoria BC 2005, ISBN 1-4120-5679-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Legacy.com obituary , accessed May 14, 2018