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Society Against the State
Author Pierre Clastres
SubjectAnthropology
Published1974
Published in English
1977 (Urizen Books)

Society Against the State ( French: 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 (1977). "Review of La Société Contre l'État". Dialectical Anthropology. 2 (1–4): 173–174. doi: 10.1007/BF00249483. ISSN  0304-4092. JSTOR  29789898. S2CID  141462781.
  • Brown, Susan Love (1993). "Rev. of Society against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology". Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 16 (1): 41–43. doi: 10.1525/pol.1993.16.1.41. ISSN  1081-6976. JSTOR  24498049.
  • Ellard, George (June 1979). "Rev. of Society against the State: The Leader as Servant and the Humane Uses of Power Among the Indians of the Americas". American Political Science Review. 73 (2): 625–626. doi: 10.2307/1954967. ISSN  0003-0554. JSTOR  1954967. S2CID  147762569.
  • Hecht, Robert (1978). "Review of La Société Contre l'État". Cambridge Anthropology. 4 (2): 95–99. ISSN  0305-7674. JSTOR  23814103.
  • Kurtz, Donald V. (1989). "Rev. of Society against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology". Anthropological Quarterly. 62 (1): 43–44. doi: 10.2307/3317695. ISSN  0003-5491. JSTOR  3317695.
  • "Rev. of Society against the State". Commonweal: 798. December 9, 1977. ISSN  0010-3330.
  • "Rev. of Society against the State". Canadian Philosophical Reviews. 9: 139. April 1989. ISSN  0228-491X.
  • "Rev. of Society against the State". The Journal of Politics: 1110. November 1978. ISSN  0022-3816.

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