Archaeology of Violence is a spectacular work of practical and philosophical anthropology. Through a series of essays, Clastres explores different aspects of primitive society, as he insists on calling them. He develops his arguments from “The Society Against the State” and grounds them both in philosophy, history and foremost in anthropology. He precents scalding and apt critiques of Marxist and structuralist accounts of primitive society. I'm especially taken by his explorations and definition of the state and societies against it, and its further relation to war and violence. In the end, there is little to critique and much to learn for all those interested in history, anthropology and philosophy, but even more so for those who aim to radically change society and upend a world with states.