Clastres, Pierre 1934-

Society against the state : the leader as servant and the humane uses of power among the Indians of the Americas by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
52 editions published between 1974 and 2009 in 7 languages and held by 909 libraries worldwide

Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
45 editions published between 1972 and 2006 in 5 languages and held by 836 libraries worldwide
"Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres's account of his 1963-64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and culture of this remarkably unique, and now vanished, people. "Determined not to let the slightest detail" escape him or to leave unanswered the many questions prompted by his personal experiences. Clastres follows the Guayakis in their everyday lives."--BOOK JACKET.

Archeology of violence by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
19 editions published between 1980 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 351 libraries worldwide
"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."".

Le grand parler : mythes et chants sacrés des Indiens guarani by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
6 editions published in 1974 in French and held by 87 libraries worldwide

Archéologie de la violence : la guerre dans les sociétés primitives by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
8 editions published between 1977 and 2010 in French and held by 74 libraries worldwide

Mythologie des Indiens Chulupi by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
6 editions published in 1992 in French and held by 55 libraries worldwide

Chronique des indiens guayaki : ce que savent les ache, chasseurs nomades du paraguay by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
1 edition published in 1972 in French and held by 51 libraries worldwide

Archéologie de la violence : la guerre dans les sociétés primitives by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
2 editions published in 1997 in French and held by 49 libraries worldwide

Staatsfeinde : Studien zur politischen Anthropologie by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
3 editions published in 1976 in German and held by 43 libraries worldwide

Archäologie der Gewalt by Pierre Clastres ( Book )
1 edition published in 2008 in German and held by 24 libraries worldwide