in their discussion of "free societies" (as opposed to "egalitarian societies"), Graeber and Wengrow note that "the freedoms which form the moral basis of a nation like the United States are, largely, formal freedoms" (131)
by contrast, "what the Hazda, Wendat or 'egalitarian' people such as the Nuer seem to have been concerned with were not so much formal freedoms as substantive ones. They were less interested in the right to travel than in the possibility of actually doing so"
"Mutual aid [in these societies] were seen as the necessary condition for individual autonomy"
this is (maybe) the first place in this book where two of the "primordial freedoms" that are central later in the book begin to appear (the "right to travel wherever [you] like") and the freedom "to ever having to obey the arbitrary orders of superiors" (both 131) -- "the third, the freedom to shift back and forth between social structures," appears with the other two on 132-3