The person that I admire.
Pierre
“It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle. It might be said with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is a history of their struggle against the state”. Pierre Clastres.
Today I’m going to talk about Pierre Clastres, who was a French
anarchist, anthropologist and ethnographer who studied different cultures who
choose to build their societies not around the figure of a estate.
Pierre Clastres emphatises the importance of studing this kind of
cultures, and not looking down on them just because their social organization
was different from which westerneesse culture may call “more developed”.
He is best known for his contributions to the field of political anthropology, with his fieldwork among Guayaki in Paraguay.
Clastres was born on 17 May 1934, in Paris, France. He
studied at University of
Sorbonne, obtaining a licence in Literature in 1957, and a Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées in Philosophy in the following year. He went into working with Anthropology after 1956 as student of Claude
Lévi-Strauss, working at the Laboratory of Social Anthropology of the French
National Centre for Scientific Research during the 1960s.
I like Pierre Clastres because his books it has always
caused controversy, like his book called “Society against the state” or “Arqueology
of Violence”.
I never read about Pierre. I have to research his controversy books, thanks for the information.
ReplyDeleteWow, "Archeology of Violence" sounds a very interesting book! i'll try to read it. xoxo
ReplyDeleteI didn't know him, but he was a French anarchist and his books calls my attention haha and he looks pretty haha
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how he related the anarchism with anthropology, I hope to find their books!
ReplyDeleteI really want know more about Clastres, and read his books like "Arqueology of Violence"
ReplyDeleteHi Ninoska! He is a person with a very interesting proposal. I have never read him, but I know about him through David Graeber, another anthropologist and anarchist that maybe you know. I think that during the holidays I will read the books you mentioned.
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