The Enlightenment and Totemic Systems in North America

The origins of a lot of ideas of freedom is the sort of pre conquest, particularly north american societies. Supposedly, you could just kind of wander off and join a different group and no big deal. And so what seems really weird is that how do they account for these obligations and prohibitions? I mean, i agree that it's g so here, here's what i would say about this. Am, part of what it shows is how impoverished their notion of power seems to be. They seem to think if you don't have a specific dude who can tell you hat do, then you must be free eatly. But in fact, there are all sorts of constraints on behaviour