# Archeology of Violence, new edition

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- Book: [Archeology of Violence, new edition](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-clastres/archeology-of-violence-new-edition) ([Archeology of Violence, new edition.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-clastres/archeology-of-violence-new-edition.md))
- Authors: [Pierre Clastres](https://www.bookquiver.com/pierre-clastres), [Eduardo Viveiros De Castro](https://www.bookquiver.com/eduardo-viveiros-de-castro)
- Publisher: semiotext_e
- ISBN: 978-15-8435-093-4
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2010-10-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Clastres's final, posthumous book on the affirmative role of violence in “primitive societies.” The war machine is the motor of the social machine; the primitive social being relies entirely...