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The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely on war, primitive society cannot survive without war. The more war there is, the less unification there is, and the best enemy of the State is war. Primitive society is society against the State in that it is society-for-war.--from The Archeology of ViolenceAnthropologist and ethnographer Pierre Clastres was a major influence on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, and his writings formed an essential chapter in the discipline of political anthropology. The posthumous publication in French of Archeology of Violence in 1980 gathered together Clastres's final groundbreaking essays and the opening chapters of the book he had begun before his death in 1977 at the age of 43. Elaborating upon the conclusions of such earlier works as Society Against the State, in these essays Clastres critiques his former mentor, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and devastatingly rejects the orthodoxy of Marxist anthropolo

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Author

Pierre Clastres, Jeanine Herman, Ashley Lebner, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Publisher

Semiotext(e) ; Distributed by the MIT Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781584350934

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Social Science, Sociology

Updated

2026-03-24