Philippe Descola Beyond Nature and Culture (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Beyond Nature and CultureCondition: NewEAN: 9780226212364ISBN: 9780226212364Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/22/2014Author: Philippe DescolaLanguage: EnglishDescription: Successor to Claude Levi-Strausa at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Culture - as a collective human making, of art, language, and so forth - is often seen as essentially different than nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Descola shows this essential difference to be, however, not only a specifically Western notion, but also a very recent one. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, he formulates a sophisticated new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature.By thinking beyond nature and culture as a simple dichotomy, Descola offers nothing short of a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureItem Height: 23mmItem Length: 17mmItem Width: 3mmItem Weight: 765gTranslator: Janet LloydContributor: Janet Lloyd (Translated by), Marshall Sahlins (Foreword by)Release Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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