Paperback, 218 pages
English language
Published Sept. 21, 1989 by Zone Books.
Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
Essays in Political Anthropology
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Society Against the State (French: La Société contre l'État) is a 1972 ethnography of power relations in South American rainforest native cultures written by anthropologist Pierre Clastres and best known for its thesis that tribal societies reject the centralization of coercive power. Clastres challenged the idea that all cultures evolve through Westernization to adopt coercive leadership as popular, ethnocentric myth.
Subjects
- POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Social history
- Political anthropology
- General
- Politics / Current Events
- Philosophy
- North America
- South America
- Anthropology - Cultural
- Philosophy / General
- Indians of South America