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<p>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 in which power, though it manifests itself everywh
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- Author
- Pierre Clastres
- Publisher
- New York: Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by the MIT Press
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780942299007
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Anthropology
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (251 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Society Against the State : Essays in Political Anthropology (1989)
- Society Against The State: The Leader As Servant And The Humane Uses Of Power Among The Indians Of The Americas Société Contre L'état. English (1977)
- Clastres 1974 La societe contre l'etat (2016)
- La société contre l'État : recherches d'anthropologie politique (2013)
- La Sociedad Contra El Estado (1978)
- La Sociedad Contra El Estado (2012)
- Clastres 1987 Society Against the State (2011)
- La société contre l'État: Recherches d'anthropologie politique (Collection Critique) (1974)
- La sociedad contra el Estado [2229] (1978)
- Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology (Zone Books) (2020)
- Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology (Zone Books) (1989)
- La sociedad contra el Estado (2008)
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