[ "Was That a totem revamped from a remote past?" (Brussels, 2011) . Photos of Marzia Poerio]
Subtitle: LA GUERRE DANS LES Sociétés Primitives (1977), La Tour-d'Aigues, Éditions de l'Aube, 2010
Clastres found himself in the seventies, in a position of dissatisfaction against the two dominant anthropological schools at the time: the structuralist, especially played by Levi-Strauss, and the Marxist. The latter highlights a limitation in identifying the archaic society as characterized by shortages, pointing to the contrary, that the primitive communities, because independent of each other and mostly self-sufficient, Provide the necessary for their members, then you would have to speak, in his opinion, rather than abundance of misery.
Compared to the specific problem of the war, the ubiquity notatane the prehistoric world, denied that it resulted from a need to conquer for the appropriation of resources, as well as the war, as seemed to support the structuralists, was not characteristic of the phase, but due to the need for exchange.
providing a more diverse sociological model, saw the prehistoric communities as political entities, as arranged on a geographical territory and organized so as to identify each of themselves as world particolare. La guerra sarebbe dunque connaturata a questa necessità particolaristica, frutto della logica centrifuga, necessità che protegge tale logica, mentre lo scambio, soprattutto di rapporti matrimoniali con le tribù prossime, era necessario ai rapporti di alleanza in vista delle guerre col nemico.
Si tratta di uno studio che, a parere di chi scrive queste note, è più integrabile con le teorie che critica che separabile da esse, nondimeno un’inchiesta di notevole interesse nelle strutture sociali e nella mentalità del periodo che prende in esame. Gradita dunque la riedizione di Aube.
[Roberto Bertoni]
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