Pierre Clastres
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- 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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5 total works indexed
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,499x
- Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2004 · cited 27,752x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,019x
- Outline of a Theory of Practice
· 1977 · cited 18,793x
- 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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1934 births1977 deaths20th-century French anthropologists20th-century French essayistsAcademic staff of the École pratique des hautes étudesAnarchist anthropologistsAnarchist writersAnti-Stalinist leftFormer MarxistsFrench anarchistsFrench anti-communistsFrench communist writersFrench ethnographersFrench ethnologistsFrench expatriates in BrazilFrench expatriates in ParaguayFrench expatriates in VenezuelaFrench explorersFrench male essayistsFrench political philosophersLatin AmericanistsRoad incident deaths in FranceUniversity of Paris alumniWriters from Paris