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100			_aClastres, Pierre _97091
245		0	_aSociety Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology/ _cPierre Clastres
260			_bZone Books; _c1989
300			_a218P; _c23x15cm
520			_aIn this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among all the possible modes of political organization, did we come to choose the monolithic State model and its accompanying regimes of coercion? As Clastres shows, other and different regimes do indeed exist, and they existed long before ours ― regimes in which power, though it manifests itself everywhere, is nonetheless noncoercive. In such societies, political culture, and cultural practices generally, are not only not submissive to the State model, but they actively avert it, rendering impossible the very conditions in which coercive power and the State could arise. How then could our own “societies of the State” ever have arisen from these rich and complex stateless societies, and why?
546			_aEnglish
650			_aGovernance _97092
650			_aJC571-605 Political theory. The state- Purpose, functions, and relations of the state _97093
650			_aPublic-State relations _97094
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