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Society Against the State
Society Against the State
Author: Pierre Clastres
"The thesis is radical," writes Marshall Sahlins of this landmark text in anthropology and political science. "We conventionally define the state as the regulation of violence; it may be the origin of it. Clastres's thesis is that economic expropriation and political coercion are inconsistent with the character of tribal society - which is to sa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780893960223
ISBN-10: 0893960225
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Publisher: Aperture
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