Review of 'Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
While the language is dated Clastres careful analysis of acephalous societies in the Americas reveal important insight on the relationship between individual, society, and the state. To avoid class society, and a hierarchical state, its not enough to not have a state or to lack hierarchy, rather one must create institutions that actively undermines all and any attempt to establish hierarchy and statehood.
