Pierre Clastres

by Jordi Bonshoms Guzmán
Pierre Clastres

Pierre Clastres and the Anthropological Riddle

Pierre Clastre’s seminal work Society against the State marked a turning point in the history of political anthropology. But this founding piece has brought much more into social sciences. Underlying his ethnographic reflection on the culture and political organisation of South-American societies there is a particular epistemological scaffolding that buttresses his ethnographic work..