Bima Satria Putra, Anarchy in Alifuru (Minor Compositions, 2026).
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (William Heinemann, 1902); David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021); James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale University Press, 2009).
“Graeber and Wengrow on the Myth of the Stupid Savage,” May 2019, posted December 21, 2019, by Red Plateaus, YouTube →.
See also Femme S. Gaastra, The Dutch East India Company: Expansion and Decline (Walburg Pers, 2003).
Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (Harper Collins, 1992); Élisée Reclus, Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisée Reclus, ed. John P. Clark and Camille Martin (PM Press, 2013).
Timothy R. Pauketat, Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi (Viking, 2009); O. W. Wolters, The Fall of Śrīvijaya in Malay History (Lund Humphries, 1970).
Bima Satria Putra, Dayak mardaheka: Sejarah masyarakat tanpa negara di pedalaman Kalimantan (Pustaka Catut, 2021).
Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680, 2 vols. (Yale University Press, 1988–93); Lance Castles, “Statelessness and Stateforming Tendencies among the Batak before Colonial Rule,” Indonesia, no. 31 (1981).
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000); Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital, trans. David Broder (Verso, 2019).
Bellamy Fitzpatrick, “An Invitation to Desertion,” Backwoods: A Journal of Anarchy and Wortcunning, no. 1 (Spring 2018) →.
Barbara Watson Andaya, To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (University of Hawai‘i Press, 1993).
Anthony Reid, An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra (NUS Press, 2021).
Romain Bertrand, L’Histoire à parts égales: Récits d’une rencontre Orient-Occident (XVIe–XVIIe siècle) (Seuil, 2011).
Gregory Bateson, Naven: A Survey of the Problems Suggested by a Composite Picture of the Culture of a New Guinea Tribe (Stanford University Press, 1958).
Tribal Communities in the Malay World: Historical, Cultural and Social Perspectives, ed. Geoffrey Benjamin and Cynthia Chou (International Institute for Asian Studies and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002). Scott’s engagement with Benjamin appears especially in discussions of Semang/Senoi societies.
Asian Freedoms: The Idea of Freedom in East and Southeast Asia, ed. David Kelly and Anthony Reid (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
James Brooke, The Private Letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak, ed. John C. Templer, 3 vols. (Richard Bentley, 1853).
For queenship and gender conflict in Aceh, see Sher Banu A. L. Khan, Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641–1699 (NUS Press, 2017).
Harold Barclay, People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy (Kahn & Averill, 1990), 18.
Bima Satria Putra, Rainbow Tribes: Indonesian Queer Histories from Pre- to Late Colonial Eras (Minor Compositions, forthcoming).
Christian Pelras, “The Bugis,” in The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ed. Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox, and Darrell Tryon (ANU Press, 1995); Christian Pelras, The Bugis (Blackwell, 1996).
Sharyn Graham Davies, Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves (Routledge, 2010).
Keith Weller Taylor, The Birth of Vietnam (University of California Press, 1983).
Ellie Bennett, The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period (University of Helsinki Press, 2004).
László Török, The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization (Brill, 1997).
