Sure - why not? How about ancient Ireland?

“Turlough O’Carolan was an Irish harpist who lived in the mid-1600s and wrote pieces for the people he met and stayed with - playing music in exchange for hospitality. Tradition has it that the harp was played last thing at night, before people went to bed.” http://dedanaan.com/

“To refuse someone food and shelter where it is due would make the offender guilty of the offence of esa/in [literally, 'driving away']. Hospitality is the duty of every freeman. Refusal requires a compensation equal to their honor price.” http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Article/256419#2

Vaguely connected to the general theme of nomaditry, as the Fenian bands would travel around defending the borders or hunting for half of the year and spend the other half relaxing at home; as per Hakim Bey:
“I would guess that the old life way of transhumancy always proved both enjoyable and practical, at least in small scale economies. Twice a year you get up and move, travel, change your life and even your diet - - a taste of nomadic freedom. But always the same two places. One place is typically more heimlich than the other — the village, the hearth; while the other place is typically wilder than the first, and this one might be called the place of Desire, of Summer.
In the tales of Finn Mac Cumal and his Fenian band we nearly always meet them at this wilder end of the spectrum, the greenwood, the landscape of the hunt which reaches “back” in time to a more golden pre-agricultural age, and also “aslant” in time — to Tir nan Og, the Land of Summer, realm of the Tuatha de Danaan, who are both the Dead and the Fairies. ”
http://www.t0.or.at/hakimbey/summer.htm

“The hierarchy of the time meant that a tuath was part of a mór-tuath (three or four tuaithe), which in turned joined together to form a cóiced, each cóiced (Munster, Ulster, Connaught, Leinster and Meath) forming Ireland as a whole unit. Every tuath, mór-tuath and cóiced had its own Rí, though no matter what grade of Rí they were, they ultimately were still the leader of one small tuatha aswell. Despite this hierarchy, decisions and power still lay largely close to the Gaelic people, decision making seeping upwards only in small amounts to the higher ranking Ríg, the mirror image of our modern system where power is held at the top and only seeps down to the Irish people in small amounts. ” http://craobhgalgreine.blogspot.com/20.../gaelic-ireland-craobh-gal-grine.html

All of which reminds me of this weird 1983 Semiotext(e) book I’m reading at the moment, “bolo’bolo” by a guy calling himself p.m. - basically a utopian thought-experiment where everyone lives in anarchistish communes and there is total freedom of movement between them backed up by a universal honour code of hospitality.

So there you go.

What happens if you let a thousand people manifest their dreams about society right in the middle of a modern metropolis? You get CHRISTIANIA, the western world’s longest existing free society, outside normal law and order.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8887317701829510625
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania

See: this is exactly the kind of targeted specific information retrieval that a computer is not yet able to replicate…

There are 8 sections, each about an hour long, I think, and I was just out at lunch listening to section 3 where (about midway through) he compares the overall experience of the DMT trip to what he called “the circus archetype”. He goes on to discuss (albeit only for a few minutes) different symbolic aspects of the circus: The 3 center rings (ie: Dante’s Paradiso), the lady on the flying trapeze, the clowns, the ring master, how outside the main attraction are the weird and unusual, the side-show freaks and the carnival games. After lunch I came back to work and checked your site, saw this post…

I had thought it weird to describe the circus an archetype, as I had always thought of archetypes in the more traditional Jungian sense of “The Shadow” “The Anima/Animus” etc etc. but hey, why not make up more? Anyway, due to the synchronicity, I thought it worth mentioning.

I can get the MP3s to you if you’d like, just let me know.

Also, if you haven’t read any of Chaucer’s CANTERBURY TALES, you should. Many of them deal with stories of hospitality and breaches of hospitality (usually involving cuckolding the host’s wife).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales

A fine example is the Miller’s tale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Miller%27s_Prologue_and_Tale

hope this helps!