Society Against the State explained
| Society Against the State |
| Author: | Pierre Clastres |
| Subject: | Anthropology |
| Published: | 1974 |
| English Pub Date: | 1977 (Urizen Books) |
Society Against the State (fr|La Société contre l'État) is a 1974 ethnography of power relations in South American rainforest native cultures written by anthropologist Pierre Clastres and best known for its thesis that tribal societies reject the centralization of coercive power. Clastres challenged the idea that all cultures evolve through Westernization to adopt coercive leadership as a popular, ethnocentric myth.
Further reading
- Arcand . Bernard . Bernard Arcand . Review of La Société Contre l'État . . 2 . 1–4 . 173–174 . 1977 . 10.1007/BF00249483 . en . 0304-4092 . 29789898 . 141462781 . mdy-all .
- Brown . Susan Love . Rev. of Society against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology . Political and Legal Anthropology Review . 16 . 1 . 41–43 . 1993 . 10.1525/pol.1993.16.1.41 . 1081-6976 . 24498049 .
- Ellard . George . Rev. of Society against the State: The Leader as Servant and the Humane Uses of Power Among the Indians of the Americas . . 73 . 2 . 625–626 . June 1979 . 10.2307/1954967 . 0003-0554 . 1954967 . 147762569 .
- Hecht . Robert . Review of La Société Contre l'État . Cambridge Anthropology . 4 . 2 . 95–99 . 1978 . en . 0305-7674 . 23814103 . mdy-all .
- Kurtz . Donald V. . Rev. of Society against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology . . 62 . 1 . 43–44 . 1989 . 10.2307/3317695 . 0003-5491 . 3317695 .
- Rev. of Society against the State . . 798 . December 9, 1977 . 0010-3330 .
- Rev. of Society against the State . Canadian Philosophical Reviews . 9 . 139 . April 1989 . 0228-491X .
- Rev. of Society against the State . . 1110 . November 1978 . 0022-3816 .
