Title : Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians - Pierre Clastres - book

Summary :

They are called Guayaki, "Fierce Rats." They call themselves Aché, "the People." Silent and invisible, these nomads roam the tropical forest in eastern Paraguay. This is what has allowed them to escape for so long the fate of their sedentary neighbors: slavery, death, disappearance.

The author spent a year in their intimacy... The incidents and funny or tragic anecdotes gradually draw the portrait of these Guayaki, bawdy when they can, serious when necessary: ​​honey festivals, love festivals, conflict within the gangs, murders, sacrifices, cannibalism (they free themselves from their dead by eating them). Gentleness is followed by cruelty. This vanished culture is based on the loyalty of the Indians to their ancient rites, and, beyond that, to the myths of their origin and their destiny, which arouse strange echoes in us.

This book is a chronicle that does not shy away from any of the problems posed to ethnology by this Indian population. From the very particular ecology of a society of hunters to the most secret logic of their thought, it is the entirety of an unknown cultural universe that is revealed here, under the gaze of one of the great French ethnologists.

• EAN : 9782266111669
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