ANTHROPOLOGIST

Pierre Clastres

1934 - 1977

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Pierre Clastres (French: [pjɛʁ klastʁ]; 17 May 1934 – 29 July 1977) was a French anthropologist, ethnographer, and ethnologist. He is best known for his contributions to the field of political anthropology, with his fieldwork among the Guayaki in Paraguay and his theory of stateless societies. He mostly researched Indigenous peoples of the Americas in which the power was not considered coercive and chieftains were powerless. With a background in literature and philosophy, Clastres started studying anthropology with Claude Lévi-Strauss and Alfred Métraux in the 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Clastres is the 36th most popular anthropologist (down from 30th in 2019), the 2,706th most popular biography from France (down from 2,494th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Pierre Clastres ranks 36 out of 93. Before him are Marc Augé, Fredrik Barth, Richard Leakey, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Franco Basaglia. After him are Cheikh Anta Diop, Marcel Griaule, David Graeber, Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov, Edwin H. Colbert, and John Lloyd Stephens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Pierre Clastres ranks 170. Before him are Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Lakhdar Brahimi, Linda Cristal, Jacques Loussier, Claude Zidi, and Francisco de Sá Carneiro. After him are Eileen Atkins, Leonard Kleinrock, Freddie King, Gennadiy Aygi, Ayla Erduran, and Van Cliburn. Among people deceased in 1977, Pierre Clastres ranks 97. Before him are Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, Luigi Bertolini, Hamazasp Babadzhanian, Carl Gustaf von Rosen, Samael Aun Weor, and James M. Cain. After him are Miloš Crnjanski, Ba Maw, Pan Yuliang, Ronnie Van Zant, Marie-Thérèse Walter, and Isaac Boleslavsky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Clastres ranks 2,706 out of 6,770. Before him are Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (1328), Christophe Pierre (1946), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), Henri Dupuy de Lôme (1816), Bruno Metsu (1954), and Adolphe Nourrit (1802). After him are Laurent de La Hyre (1606), Pierre Woodman (1963), Philibert Commerson (1727), Jean-Hugues Anglade (1955), Jean-Jacques Goldman (1951), and Achille Valenciennes (1794).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In France

Among anthropologists born in France, Pierre Clastres ranks 4. Before him are Paul Broca (1824), Jacques de Morgan (1857), and Marc Augé (1935). After him are Marcel Griaule (1898), Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854), Alfred Sauvy (1898), Maurice Godelier (1934), Georges Balandier (1920), Philippe Descola (1949), Yves Coppens (1934), and Françoise Héritier (1933).

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