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"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." "Anthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres was a major influence on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, and his writings formed an essential chapter in the discipline of political anthropology. The posthumous publication in French of Archeology of Violence in 1980 gathered together Clastres's final groundbreaking essays and the opening chapters of the book he had begun before his death in 1977 at the age 43. Elaborating upon the conclusions of such earlier works as Society Against the State, in these essays Clastres critiques his former mentor, Claude Levi-Strauss, and devastatingly rejects the orthodoxy of Marxist anthropology and other Western interpretive models of "primitive societies." Discarding the traditional anthropological understanding of war among South American Indians as arising from a scarcity of resources, Clastres instead identifies violence among these peoples as a deliberate means to territorial segmentatin and the avoidance of a State formation. In their refusal to separate the political from the social, and in their careful control of their tribal chiefs--who are rendered weak so as to remain dependent on the communities they represent--the "savages" Clastres presents prove to be shrewd political minds who resist in advance any attempt at "globalization."".
"The essays in this, Clastres's final book, cover subjects ranging from ethnocide and shamanism to "primitive" power and economy, and are as vibrant and engaging as they were thirty years ago. This new edition--which includes an introduction by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro--holds even more relevance for readers in today's era of malaise and globalization."--BOOK JACKET.
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Political anthropology, Anthropology, Anthropological aspects, Anthropological aspects of Violence, Aspect sociologique, Cross-cultural studies, Guerre et société, Prehistoric Warfare, Violence, War, War and society, Warfare, Prehistoric, Politieke antropologie, Ethnology, Geweld, Guerra, Aspectos antropológicos, ViolenciaShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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Archeology of violence
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Arqueología de la violencia: la guerra en las sociedades primitivas
2009, Fondo de Cultura Económica
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Arqueologia de La Violencia
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Archéologie de la violence: la guerre dans les sociétés primitives
1999, Éditions de l'Aube
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Archéologie de la violence: la guerre dans les sociétés primitives
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