Archeology of Violence By Pierre Clastres
Publisher: Sem iotex 1994 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0936756950 | PDF | 16 MB
Publisher: Sem iotex 1994 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0936756950 | PDF | 16 MB
Pierre Clastres broke up with his mentor Claude Levi-Strauss to collaborate with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari on their Anti-Oedipus. He is the rare breed of political anthropologist–a Nietzschean–and his work presents us with a generalogy of power in a native state. For him, tribal societies are not Rousseauist in essence; to the contrary, they practice systematic violence in order to prevent the rise in their midst of this "cold monster," the state. Only by waging war with other tribes can they maintain the dispersion and autonomy of each group. In the same way, tribal chiefs are not all-powerful; to the contrary, they are rendered weak in order to remain dependent on the community.