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Workshop “Pierre Clastres: Society Against the
State” Friday, February 17, 2012, 8 am,
Wiener Urania, Dachsaal Coordination:
Georg Schendl (Center for Inter-American Studies, Universität Graz) “The
history of the people without history is (…) the history of their fight
against the state.” Pierre Clastres, 1974 Pierre
Clastres (1934-1977) was a French anthropologist and ethnographer. Through
his fieldwork with the Guayaki and the Guarani he developed his theories of
stateless societies. In his view, which opposes evolutionist and Marxist
concepts, “primitive societies” actively prevent the
establishment of the state via wars and violent conflicts. This permanent
state of war enables the group to stay autonomous, without any separation of
rulers and ruled. Despotism does not evolve because the leaders never
accumulate enough power. Clastres therefore criticises the economic
determinisms of Marxism as he creates an anarchist reading of stateless
societies. The workshop will start with an introduction to the main concepts
of Pierre Clastres. The discussion will focus on the question whether the
theories are of enduring timeliness and how they relate to mobile ways of
living.
This
workshop is dedicated in memoriam of the 35 year anniversary of the death of
Pierre Clastres – an outstanding scientist and a nomad himself who
devoted his life to the research of the nomadic people of South America. |
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