LC control no. | n 81019936 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Clastres, Pierre, 1934-1977 |
Birth date | 1934-05-17 |
Death date | 1977-07-29 |
Place of birth | Paris (France) |
Place of death | Lozère (France : Department) |
Field of activity | Political anthropology |
Profession or occupation | Anthropologists Ethnologists |
Found in | His Chronique des indiens Guayaki, 1972. His Recherches d'anthropologie politique, c1980: t.p. (Pierre Clastres) cover p. 4 (d. 1977) Wikipedia, June 26, 2023 (Pierre Clastres; Pierre Clastres (17 May 1934, Paris, France--29 July 1977, Gabriac, France) was a French anthropologist, ethnographer, and ethnologist; he is best known for his contributions to the field of political anthropology, with his fieldwork among the Guayaki in Paraguay and his theory of stateless societies; his signature work is the essay collection Society Against the State (1974) and his bibliography also includes Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1972), Le Grand Parler (1974), and Archeology of Violence (1980); he died, aged 43, in Gabriac, Lozère in a car accident) |
Associated language | fre |