ANTH 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pierre Clastres, Clastres, Copernican Revolution

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

Document Summary

Announcements: professor lemons cancelled class last tuesday january 23rd, 2018 because of the ice/snow. I was absent for this class and i was not hired yet for the osd note-taker so please excuse the notes if they are not as complete. French anthropologist, 1934-77, studied with levi-strauss the sadboi structuralist. Society against the state, 1974 (not translated to english til 1987) took up political anth after the may 68 uprisings. refused orthodoxy! "copernican revolution" fieldwork in latin america, also wrote "the chronical of the ___ indians" Political power is not only the sort of power which is present in societies with states, in which the power is coercive and violent. Societies without states manage and control power in other ways, which, in many cases, prohibits the creation of a state. Nature&power, and how culture in stateless society seeks to control/neutralize each. economies vs exchanges.