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 as well as political anthropology and anthropology of religion.
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.
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Buurri al Lamaab, a suburban village in the 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. ISBN0-85131-329-9
Culture: the human way. Calgary. Alta., Canada: Western Publishers, 1986. ISBN0-919119-11-5
Anthropology and Anarchism. Cambridge: the Anarchist Encyclopaedia, 1986.