PIERRE CLASTRES. TRANSLATED BY PAUL AUSTER
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
London England, Faber and Faber, 1998. 1st Faber & Faber Edition, Binding: Soft Cover, Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0571193986 Paperback Paperback. Chronicle of the Guaraki Indians. Slight crease to corner back cover. This book 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, and makes compelling, sometimes shocking reading. But Clastres's Directness and humanity - beautifully expressed in Paul Auster's translation - brings this alien world close to our own. Illustrated. 241 pp.

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Keywords: Non Fiction History Tribe Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians Paraguay 0571193986