Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians Pierre Clastres, Paul Auster (Translator)
Publisher: Zone Books
ISBN: 0942299787
Edition: Paperback; 2000-12-11
Summary:
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.
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