Description: Beyond Nature and Culture, Paperback by Descola, Philippe; Lloyd, Janet (TRN); Sahlins, Marshall (FRW), ISBN 022621236X, ISBN-13 9780226212364, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 French 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 from 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.
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Book Title: Beyond Nature and Culture
Number of Pages: 488 Pages
Publication Name: Beyond Nature and Culture
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Social, Ecology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 1.7 in
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 22.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Philippe Descola
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Nature, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
