Faber & Faber Clastres, P: Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
18.90 CHF
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Chronicle of the Guyaki Indians is an unsentimental, yet sympathetic, depiction of the year anthropologist Pierre Clastres spent with a so-called ´savage´ tribe of Indians in Paraguay in 1963. It describes the everyday life and habits, ritual and cosmology of these Indians. It makes compelling, sometimes shocking reading - when, for instance, the Indians´ anger at the fate they have to suffer causes them to start murdering their own children. But Clastres´s book - in Paul Auster´s marvellous translation - brings this alien world close to our own. ...
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