Sociality against the state: the anthropology of Pierre Clastres
Clastres ‘de-substantializes' the state, which is not ‘the Elysium, the White House, the Kremlin,' but ‘an actualization of a relation of power.' There is no reason, therefore, to believe that, in a Durkheimian mood, he has reified society. Even though he makes no use of the concept,...
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| description | Clastres ‘de-substantializes' the state, which is not ‘the Elysium, the White House,
the Kremlin,' but ‘an actualization of a relation of power.' There is no reason, therefore, to
believe that, in a Durkheimian mood, he has reified society. Even though he makes no use of
the concept, I believe there is already a concept of ‘sociality' at work in Clastres: hence, the
idea of sociality against the state. In the three sections of this study, I show the role played by
‘society,' the ‘state' and ‘against' in Clastres's writings. In this way, I aim to demonstrate that
his ethnography is filled with indications about how to deal with some of the continuing
dilemmas of anthropology, such as: how can we avoid methodological individualism without
becoming spellbound by a transcendental holism or vice-versa? How can we erect models of
intentionality without a subject? How can we conceive of social relations without a society?
And finally, how does the ‘objectivity' of sociality work through the ‘subjectivity' of personsin-interaction? |
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