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Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology

Pierre Clastres · Zone Books · 1987

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Book
Author
Pierre Clastres
Identifier
DOI 10.2307/j.ctv1595m3p
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2026-09-01
Reliability notes
Translation of La Société contre l'État (Éditions de Minuit, 1974). ISBN 9780942299878.

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TheoryChristopher Boehm argued that egalitarian foraging bands are sustained by a reverse dominance hierarchy, in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong and so keep would-be dominators in check.