I'm currently reading The Art of Not Being Governed by James C Scott, which is all about how "hill people" the world over have much in common with each other: l

I'm currently reading The Art of Not Being Governed by James C Scott, which is all about how "hill people" the world over have much in common with each other: like illiteracy, oral traditions, living in difficult geographies, frequent moving, different names for the same geographic features--these "uncivilized" traits deliberately obfuscate themselves and make it more difficult to be found, counted, assessed, taxed, conscripted, and in general forced into submission/subservience to the state they are co-located in. "Rural" doesn't quite cover this group, but certainly has overlap with it.