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**Harold B. Barclay** (1924 - 2017) was an
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[anthropologist](Anthropology "wikilink") and
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[anarchist](Anarchism "wikilink") theorist, specialising in tribal
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[North
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Africa](Timeline_of_Libertarian_Socialism_in_Northern_Africa "wikilink").
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## Life
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Barclay was born near Boston and received his PhD from Cornell after
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being a conscientious objector in [World War
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II](World_War_II "wikilink"). Early in his career he lived and traveled
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extensively in the Middle East and Africa and spent two years at the
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American University of Cairo.
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Prof. Barclay joined the Anthropology Department at the University of
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Alberta in 1967 after teaching at Knox College and University of Oregon.
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He decided to move to Canada because he was opposed to the [war in
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Vietnam](Vietnam_War "wikilink"), and the chair of the Sociology
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Department Gordon Hirabayashi, whom he had met in Cairo, helped him
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obtain a position in the newly-created Anthropology Department. In
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addition to doing research on rural society in modern Egypt and the
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northern Arab Sudan, Prof. Barclay did ethnographic research in Alberta
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which he described as a “goldmine of religious diversity.” He published
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extensively in the field of political anthropology, including some
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well-regarded books on anarchy.
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Prof. Barclay retired from the University of Alberta in 1989, and he and
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his wife traveled extensively before settling in Vernon, B.C.
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Canada.\[1\]
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## Works
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- 1964: *Buurri al Lamaab, a suburban village in the Sudan*
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- 1980: *The role of the horse in man's culture*
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- 1986: *Culture: the human way*
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- 1986: *Anthropology and Anarchism.* Cambridge: the Anarchist
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Encyclopaedia, 1986.
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- 1990: *[People without Government: An Anthropology of
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Anarchy](People_without_Government:_An_Anthropology_of_Anarchy "wikilink")*
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- 1997: Culture and anarchism
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- 2003: *The state*
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- 2005: *Longing for Arcadia: memoirs of an anarcho-cynicalist
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anthropologist*
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## References
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1. Canadian Anthropology Society - [Harold Barclay
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(1924-2017)](https://cascacultureblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/harold-barclay/) |