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Pierre Clastres

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French anthropologist (1934-1977)

Person · Open Library

Born
1934
Works
9

Top works

  • On ethnocide
  • Chronique des Indiens Guayaki
  • Archeology of Violence
  • Recherches d'anthropologie politique
  • La société contre l'État

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Type
Person
Country
FR
Active from
1925-03-26
Active to
2016-01-05

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Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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5 total works indexed

  1. Going deeper with convolutions

    · 2015 · cited 32,499x

  2. Classification of Surgical Complications

    · 2004 · cited 27,752x

  3. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 22,019x

  4. Outline of a Theory of Practice

    · 1977 · cited 18,793x

  5. Testing for a unit root in time series regression

    · 1988 · cited 12,492x

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Quotes

  • Negation does not signify nothingness. ... When the mirror does not reflect our own likeness, it does not prove there is nothing to perceive.
  • Primitive societies are societies without a State. This factual judgment, accurate in itself, actually hides an opinion, a value judgment that immediately throws doubt on the possibility of constituting political anthropology as a strict science. What the statement says, in fact, is that primitive societies are missing something — the State — that is essential to them, as it is to any other society: our own, for instance.
  • Consequently, those societies are incomplete; they are not quite true societies — they are not civilized — their existence continues to suffer the painful experience of a lack — the lack of a State — which, try as they may, they will never make up. Whether clearly stated or not, that is what comes through in the explorers’ chronicles and the work of researchers alike: society is inconceivable without the State; the State is the destiny of every society.

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date of birth
1934-05-17
date of death
1977-07-29
name in native language
Pierre Clastres
birth name
Pierre Antoine Clastres
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