Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
By: Pierre Clastres ; translation & foreword by Paul Auster.
Publisher: Zone Books; Distributed by MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Guayaki Indians.
Description: Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is Pierre Clastres's account of his 1963-64 encounter with this small Paraguayan tribe, a precise and detailed recording of the history, ritual, myths, and culture of this remarkably unique, and now vanished, people. "Determined not to let the slightest detail" escape him or to leave unanswered the many questions prompted by his personal experiences. Clastres follows the Guayakis in their everyday lives.