Malheur et révélation du sauvage
The notion of the “savage”, so constant in Pierre Clastres’ writings, seems to reflect both the flaws and the obsolescence of his work. Yet this notion is also the key to its potential fruitfulness for ethnology today. Freed from reifying definitions (i. e. those caught up in the artificial separati...
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2025
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | The notion of the “savage”, so constant in Pierre Clastres’ writings, seems to reflect both the flaws and the obsolescence of his work. Yet this notion is also the key to its potential fruitfulness for ethnology today. Freed from reifying definitions (i. e. those caught up in the artificial separation of nature and culture) and reclaimed by politics in the broadest sense, this “natural” savagery is no longer opposed to anthropic order or action (“civilisation”), but to the logic of accumulation and hierarchisation of resources, knowledge and power. Yet ethnology, having paid too exclusive attention to the authoritative discourse of indigenous leaders and scholars, has often missed the opportunity to look at the fringes, the limits where the “against the State” emerges, where alternative versions of indigeneity emerge and where they manifest themselves most clearly. “Savagery”, in the sense of that which stubbornly eludes the logic of State appropriation, could thus be found on the margins of the cultural heritage that, in recent decades, has led most Amerindian peoples down a clearly State path. |
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