Subtitle: Essays in Political Anthropology
Author: Clastres, Pierre
Year: 1989
ISBN: 9780942299014
Pages: 218
Language: English
Publisher: Zone Books
Publisher's city: New York
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Society Against the State
€26.60
Can there be a society that is not divided into oppressors and oppressed, or that refuses coercive state apparatuses? In this beautifully written book, Pierre Clastres offers examples of South American Indian groups that, although without hierarchical leadership, were both affluent and complex. In so doing he refutes the usual negative definition of tribal society and poses its order as a radical critique of our own Western state of power.
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