December 9, 1975
Pierre Clastres (1934-1977) was a French anthropologist, ethnographer, and ethnologist. He was a student of Alfred Métraux and Claude Lévi-Strauss. His best known work, which strongly influenced Deleuze, is the book Society Against the State (1974). His bibliography also includes Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1972), Le Grand Parler (1974), and Archeology of Violence (1980).