ANTH 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clastres, Externality, Nuclear Family

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 308
• Professor: Katherine Lemons

Document Summary

There is an insistence the on the possibility but not only is the state not the only political form but one might choose to refuse the state. This refusal is a reduction of power to coercion that"s why it"s called societies against the state. The economic derives from the political: the relationship he is talking about is: subsistence economy is an economy where people are barely making what they need to survive. But it means labour isn"t drive by the desire to produce more profit, but driven by the necessity in reproducing life and that requires 4-5 hours a day, and the living of the good life. I can"t tell you why it emerges as the dominant political form/political break (p. 202 quote): you need to pay attention to state and recognize that the state form is at the center or all the problems.