Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology

by Pierre Clastres

Book Overview

In this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among all the possible modes of political organization, did we come to choose the monolithic State model and its accompanying regimes of coercion? As Clastres shows, other and different regimes do indeed exist, and they existed long before ours -- regimes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942299019
• ISBN13: 9780942299014
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher