Structural analysis as a method for anarchist anthropology

Abstract (English)

Although he was never an anarchist, Lévi-Strauss's work reveals influences from Proudhon's serial dialectics (Falleiros 2018a). This is in line with lévi-straussian studies on Amerindian federative politics, also infuenced by Pierre Clastres, his student, specially in the work of Beatriz Perrone-Moisés and Renato Sztutman (2009). I have been using strutctural analysis both in diametral and concentric dualisms (Lévi-Strauss 1967) to investigate what anarchists call "organization" and the method of analysis of myth applyied to politics, as Lévi-Strauss suggested (1967). This method reveals both some anarchist pitfalls - such as the hierarchic (see Louis Dumont 1966) element of bakuninist organizational dualism and the early naive approach of Élisée Reclus on mestizage (Falleiros 2018b), for instance - but also the potencial conection and actual interactions between anarchist and amerindian political forms, given its comparative character, what opens up to the study of anarchy in international relations (Falleiros 2022) and, at least, to the analysis and critics of of political power in general.