Main entry:

Clastres, Pierre, 1934-1977.

Title & Author:

Society against the state : essays in political anthropology / Pierre Clastres ; translated by Robert Hurley in collaboration with Abe Stein.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 1989, ©1987.

Description:

218 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Translation of: La société contre l'état.
Includes bibliographical references.
Copernicus and the savages -- Exchange and power : philosophy of the Indian chieftainship -- Independence and exogamy -- Elements of Amerindian demography -- The bow and the basket -- What makes Indians laugh -- The duty to speak -- Prophets in the jungle -- Of the one with the many -- Of torture in primitive societies -- Society against the state.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

ISBN:

0942299019 (pbk.)
9780942299014 (pbk.)
0942299000 (cloth)
9780942299007

Subject:

Political anthropology.
Indians of South America.
Anthropologie politique.
Peuples autochtones Amérique du Sud.
Indigenous peoples South America

Form/genre:

Essays.

Added entries:

Hurley, Robert translator.
Stein, Abe translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297716
Call No.: BIB 244056
Status: Available