【Content Description】 A society without faith, without law, without a king. A society without surplus, without a market economy, without a state. A Copernican revolution of the image of primitive societies, which have been continuously defined by the West as immature societies, pre-historical societies, or "cold societies." 【Table of Contents】 Chapter 1: Copernicus and the Savage Chapter 2: Exchange and Power / The Philosophy of Indian Chieftainship Chapter 3: Independence and Exogamy Chapter 4: For a Demography of American Indians Chapter 5: Bows and Baskets Chapter 6: What Makes Indians Laugh Chapter 7: The Duty of Words Chapter 8: Prophets of the Jungle Chapter 9: Concerning the One Without Many Chapter 10: Torture in Primitive Societies Chapter 11: Society Against the State Political Languages of the Series Society Against the State - Studies in Political Anthropology Clastres, Pierre [Author] / Watanabe Kozo [Translator]