Blog session 5

Hi, today I'm gona talk about an expert on Anthropology that I admire. But first I have to explain  whats  is Anthropology:  Anthropology is mainly based on the study of culture, diversity and critical analysis of societies, is responsible for studying the reality of the human being through a holistic approach.

One well-known expert on this was Pierre Clastres, he was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He was director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and member of the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale of the Collège de France. He joined the anarchist ideology and was actively involved in the events known as the French May. He was well known for his field work. He worked with Guayaki or Ache Indians from Paraguay and Brazil. Died prematurely in a car accident in 1977, leaving his work incomplete and scattered. Pierre Clastres opens the discussion of power and statehood in societies where the state is not present.

I admire Clastres because he was one of the first to focus on stateless societies, assuming its importance and studying them as they were, not from a ethnocentric

point of view. Also, I believe that your work has been so relevant that has affected not only anthropology if not philosophy, anarchism and political economy.