On Aug 6, 2017, at 8:15 AM, Jason McVetta <[1]jason.mcvetta@gmail.com>
   wrote:

   On Aug 6, 2017 18:00, "Zenaan Harkness" <[2]zen@freedbms.net> wrote:

     This might sound exceptionally unusual to those who have not
     experienced this absud and strange type of human behaviour, but this
     "ledger keeping" or "documentation of barter" simply does NOT happen
     - not even in "modern 2017 Australia".
     Who cares if some city-dwelling accountant type is not aware of such
     basic rural human realities?

   Not all known actually-existing societies have been based on
   accountancy - which is nearly, but not quite, the same thing as being
   based on the State.
   Pierre Clastres gives a fascinating description of non-state societies
   among "primitive" (pre-urbanization) peoples in The Archaeology of
   Violence. Available free at [3]https://muse.jhu.edu/book/21784

   That link is no good, not the Clastres (nor free)

   You can get a rather poor quality scan at:

   [4]https://monoskop.org/File:Clastres_Pierre_Archeology_of_Violence.pdf

References

   1. mailto:jason.mcvetta@gmail.com
   2. mailto:zen@freedbms.net
   3. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/21784
   4. https://monoskop.org/File:Clastres_Pierre_Archeology_of_Violence.pdf