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The Life and Death of a Homosexual

Pierre Clastres

‘There was no sweetness in the air that day: the corpse gave off a terrible stench’.

Pierre Clastres

A French anthropologist and ethnographer, Pierre Clastres (1934-1977) lived with the Guayaki Indians in Paraguay from 1963-64. His book The Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1972) is published by Faber in the UK and Zone Books in the US.

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