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Archeology of Violence (Paperback, new edition)
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Archeology of Violence (Paperback, new edition)
Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
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Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of
violence in "primitive societies." 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.-from the Archeology of Violence
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 of 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 segmentation 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 Viverios de Castro-holds even more
relevance for readers in today's an era of malaise and
globalization.
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