Primitive society is society against the state in that it is societyforwar. Oct 05, 2011 archeology of violence, now in a new edition, carries a similar potency, if in more discrete, selfcontained chapterstwelve, in fact, which focus on seminal issues dealing with the state and alterity, which europe met in native america. Clastres is a thinker of rupture, dis continuity, accident. Oct 08, 2010 primitive society is society against the state in that it is societyforwarfrom the archeology of violence. This article examines the political anthropological work of pierre clastres in light of the emergence of the subfield of comparative political theory. Anthropologist and ethnographer pierre clastres was a major influence on gilles deleuze and felix guattaris antioedipus, and his writings formed an essential chapter in the discipline of political anthropology. Rather, it is powerless power, a paradoxical phrase that clastres coins to describe how such peoples experience power as the negative answer to a question posed rather. Primitive society is society against the state in that it is societyforwarfrom the archeology of violence. War in primitive societies and sorrows of the savage. Aug 19, 2019 abbink, jon august email alerts latest issue. Archeology of violence, published in french in 1980 under the title of recherches danthropologie politique, gathers texts that were written, in their majority, shortly before the. His books include society against the state 1974 and chronicle of the guayaki indians 1972. Be the first to ask a question about the landwithoutevil.
The volume draws on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists, classicists, and art historians, all of whom have an interest in understanding the role of violence in their. Click on a datetime to view the file as it appeared at that time. The war machine is the motor of the social machine. Nov 12, 2010 primitive society is society against the state in that it is om the archeology of violence anthropologist and ethnographer pierre clastres was a major influence on gilles deleuze and felix guattaris antioedipus, and his writings formed an essential chapter in the discipline of political anthropology.
In particular, it argues that clastres reconstruction of the political philosophy of various amazonian societies offers an alternative. Anarchist thought and practice has left its mark on a series of highprofile social movements over the past few. Anarchist thought and practice has left its mark on a series of highprofile social movements over the past few years, perhaps even rivalling or supplanting marxism as a source of inspiration for radical. Pierre clastres broke up with his mentor claude levistrauss. Pierre clastres he is the rare breed of political anthropologista nietzscheanand his work presents us with a generalogy of power in a native state. Archeology of violence by pierre clastres, jeanine herman archeology of violence by pierre clastres, jeanine herman pp. Archaeology magazine bodies of the bogs violence in. Archeology oviolence is an anti hobbes book abensour 1987. He is the rare breed of political anthropologista nietzscheanand his work presents us with a generalogy of power in a native state. Analyzing and judging the manifest rationality of gloria. Pierre clastres relearning to read pierre clastres.
Of the 20 thcentury anthropologists, it is pierre clastres and marcel mauss that have been known to contribute the most to theory on anarchy. A sociedade contra o estado pierre clastres pdf buy a sociedade contra o estado portuguese edition by pierre clastres isbn. It seems that clastres archaeolog y of violence is culturalist, as it draws heavily on sahlins 1972 discussion of valu es that underscore underproduction. Join facebook to connect with helene clastres and others you may know. Primitive society is society against the state in that it is om the archeology of violence anthropologist and ethnographer pierre clastres was a major influence on gilles deleuze and felix guattaris antioedipus, and his writings formed an essential chapter in the discipline of political anthropology. Pierre clastres, fodd 17 maj 1934 i paris, dod 29 juli 1977 i gabriac, var en fransk antropolog och etnograf. Gauchet remarks, if there was any theater where the explanatory limits of marxism as a theory of society and history were revealed without any camouflage, it was that of primitive societies. An anarchist seeking an alternative to the hierarchized western societies, he mostly researched indigenous people in which the. If anything, i suggest, he embodies valueless value, a concept i articulate in relation to pierre clastress notion of powerless power. This essay examines the thought of the french anthropologist pierre clastres 1938. Pierre clastres 19341977 was a french anthropologist and ethnologist who in the wake of the events of may 68, helped overturn anthropological orthodoxy in the 1970s.
Pierre clastres wikipedias pierre clastres as translated. He is best known for his contributions to the field of political anthropology, with his fieldwork among the guayaki in paraguay and his theory of stateless societies. The volume draws on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists, classicists, and art historians, all of whom have an interest in understanding the role of violence in their respective specialist fields in. Claude lefort, political anthropology, and symbolic division. Pierre clastres was a french anthropologist who wrote the influential book society against the state, originally published in 1974. Pierre clastres a eu une pensee novatrice, ancree dans le reel des societes primitives lire. Clastres talks about the infinite task and the escalation of the exploit. Archeology of violence was said to be an antihobbes book left. Basically, he agrees that societies without a state are structurally dependent on clastges waging war, but he does not conclude as the other hobbesians that this necessarily is a good reason for a sovereign. In a series of groundbreaking essays, clastres turns around the analysis of power among south american indians and rehabilitates violence as an affirmative act meant to protect the integrity of their societies. In dialogue with the anthropology of ethics, morality, and productive action, i use.
Jul 18, 2012 wiki for collaborative studies of arts, media and humanities. Find books like archeology of violence from the worlds largest community of readers. It is argued that the clastres took the intellectual practices of guarani. In particular, it argues that clastres reconstruction of the political philosophy of various amazonian societies offers an alternative model for the engagement with texts and traditions. Article information, pdf download for pierre clastres as comparative. It sho the western illusion of human nature as either grim and savage bad or noble and harmonious good still has not recovered from the shock of pierre clastres work. Aug 31, 2019 it sho the western illusion of human nature as either grim and savage bad or noble and harmonious good still has not recovered from the shock of pierre clastres work. By his insights, clastres revives the question of what alterity is and what it implies.
For him, tribal societies are not rousseauist in essence. Based on his fieldwork with the brazilian amazonian guayaki, he showed. Clastres 1978 les marxistes et leur anthropologie, libre, 3. Goodreads members who liked archeology of violence also liked. Pierre clastres broke up with his mentor claude levistrauss to collaborate with gilles deleuze and felix gattari on their antioedipus. It might be even more anti engels, a manifesto against the for ced continuism of wor ld history prado jr. Violence in the bogs bodies of the bogs in 1904 two bodies were found in the southern part of the bourtanger moor in the netherlands. The archaeology of violence is an interdisciplinary consideration of the role of violence in socialcultural and sociopolitical contexts.
Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Han var mest kand for sitt faltarbete bland guayakifolket i paraguay och for sin teori om statslosa samhallen. The title drew my interest and when i saw that the. I came across the work of pierre clastres quite by chance several years ago at a large bookstore affiliated with an uptown university in new york.
In this respect he remained, perhaps, close to levistrauss. On anarchist anthropology harry walker fragments of an anarchist anthropology by david graeber. Archaeology of violence by pierre clastres, 9780936756950, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. For its perspective on war, archeology of violence was said to be an antihobbes book left. Wiki for collaborative studies of arts, media and humanities. Archeology of violence, new edition pierre clastres. Because one of them lays on the outstretched arm of the other, who is obviously male, it was long believed that the second body was that of a woman.
433 1579 1162 427 393 1369 342 7 1257 549 370 729 1398 1194 1095 233 704 1230 458 1016 475 784 979 636 843 1494 1207 1378 1094 632 874 104 1325 133 858 302 256 476 1332 18 639 128 37 1262 1007