** Preface by Alex Comfort

** Introduction

** I. On the Nature of Anarchy

*** On anarchy and anarchism

*** Social order and authority

*** Social sanctions

*** Government and the state

*** Conclusion

** II. Some Observations on Procedure

** III. Anarchy among Hunter-Gatherers

*** Inuit

*** San

*** Pygmies

*** Australian hunters and foragers

*** Other hunter-gatherers

*** The Yurok

*** Northwest Coast Indians

*** Bibliographic note

** IV. Anarchist Gardeners

*** Sub-Saharan Africa

*** Lugbara

*** Konkomba

*** Tiv

*** The Plateau Tonga

*** Two marginal cases: Anuak and Ibo

*** Ibo

*** New Guinea

*** The Ifugao

*** The Land Dayaks

*** South American Indians

*** Bibliographic note

** V. Anarchist Herders

*** The Nuer

*** Egalitarianism and cattle pastoralism

*** The Samek or Lapps

*** Bibliographic note

* VI. Anarchy in Agricultural Societies

*** Imazighen or Berbers

*** The Santals

*** The medieval free city

*** Fascist corporatism, syndicalism and the medieval commune

*** Anabaptists and anarchy

*** Bibliographic note

** VII. Anarchy in the Modern World

*** The Spanish Revolution

*** The anarchist intentional community

*** Bibliographic note

** VIII. Do Anarchist Polities have a Message?

*** Cultural florescence and anarchy

*** Techniques for maintaining order

*** Group decision-making

*** Types of leaders in anarchic polities

*** On the origins of the state

*** Does anarchy have a future or is history a one way street?

** Bibliography