Archeology of Violence
$77.00
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2010
Summary
Clastres’s final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in “primitive societies.” The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war.-from the Archeology of ViolenceAnthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350934 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350938 |
| Author: | Pierre Clastres, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Jeanine Herman, Ashley Lebner |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
About The Author
Pierre Clastres
Pierre Clastres (1934-1977) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist who in the wake of the events of May ‘68, helped overturn anthropological orthodoxy in the 1970s. His books include Society Against the State (1974) and Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1972). Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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