Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-942299-78-6
Verlag: Zone Books

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Pierre Clastres (1934-1979) was one of the most respected political
anthropologists of our time. Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an account of his
first fieldwork in the early 1960s--an encounter with a small, unique, and now
vanished Paraguayan tribe. From "Birth" to "The End," Clastres follows the Guayakis
in their everyday lives, determined to record every detail of their history, ritual,
myths, and culture in order to answer the many questions prompted by his personal
experiences. Now available for the first time in English in a beautiful translation
by the novelist Paul Auster, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians will alter radically
not only the Western academic conventions in which other cultures are thought but
also the discipline of political anthropology itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clastres, Pierre

Weitere Mitwirkende

Auster, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Über Autor(innen)

Clastres, Pierre
Pierre Clastres (1934-1977) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist who in the
wake of the events of May '68, helped overturn anthropological orthodoxy in the
1970s. His books include <I>Society Against the State</I> (1974) and
<I>Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians</I> (1972). Eduardo Viveiros de
Castro is a Brazilian anthropologist and a professor at the National Museum of the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Daniel C. Esty, formerly a top official with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, is Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University
and Associate Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies.