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.
- ISBN10 0942299779
- ISBN13 9780942299779
- Publish Date 5 August 1998 (first published 22 June 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Zone Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English