Reddit reviews Book of Peoples of the World: A Guide to Cultures

See Ostrom's Governing the Commons, this article, National Geographic's Book of Peoples of the World: A Guide to Cultures, George Peter Murdock's Atlas of World Cultures, and Marriage and Inequality in Classless Societies by Jane Fishburne Collier to open your mind to the different social arrangements which can exist with different material conditions. The tragedy of the commons is a purely theoretical exercise. In reality, all pre-class societies have developed cultural practices and means of organising society to reconcile individual interests with collective interests. If you're interested in the Marxist perspective on the development of capitalism, familiarise yourself with the concept of private accumulation. You can do this through reading Engels' The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, but also Rethinking Capitalist Development by Kalyan Sanyal and The Invention of Capitalism by Michael Perelman.