What Makes A Community: The Nature of Human Society as Hunter Gatherer Communities versus Agrarian Society

Nov 15th, 2008

by gbsingh.

What makes a community?

The nature of human society as hunter gatherer communities took a turn when it turned an agrarian society.

Common interests, interaction and consequent common action make a community what it is.

The early hunter gatherers had all these, along with their seven chakras including throat chakra, open and intact.

A Hunter-Gatherer Community

The ownership of their hunting and gathering tools rested with total community as such and not with its individual members separately. Hence no money was required to keep any individual accounts of ownership. Marriage had not yet been devised as an institution controlling the sex behavior of individuals among themselves.

There was no contradiction between the basic human nature and the nature of society. Our early ancestors had their bright eyes intact with them!

But as they started growing crops more than hunting and gathering, the equations started changing.

Agriculture developed more as an individual occupation than it could have done as a community based activity.

Individualistic Agrarian Development

Now the land on which an individual grew her/his crops along with the tools s/he did it with came to be under her/his individual liability/control and ultimately turned to be her/his individual, personal property.

It was this that changed all the equations of the society turning the community-based nature of human society to an individualistic agrarian society.

What makes a community?

Unfortunately there were no common interests and consequent common action left at the level of community any more.

But interaction still played its role, as people just couldn't live without interacting with one another.