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Beyond Nature and Culture , Philippe Descola
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ANTHROPOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY
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. In Beyond Nature and Culture, distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola shows this essential difference to be 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 to account for all the ways humans relate themselves to nature.
“This is without doubt the most important book coming from French anthropology since Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Anthropologie Structurale. This time, however, the contested notion of structure is put to use to deeply modify the limits of anthropology itself, since it is the very notion of nature that is being shifted from an indisputable resource to a highly local and historical topic of inquiry.”
— BRUNO LATOUR, author of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
“At the heart of the book is a compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go—and what we might imagine in its place.”
— Somatosphere
“Thanks to its richness and its broad scope, this book gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come.”
— CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS, on the French edition
PHILIPPE DESCOLA holds the chair of anthropology and heads the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale at the Collège de France. He also teaches at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Among his previous books to appear in English are In the Society of Nature and The Spears of Twilight. JANET LLOYD has translated more than seventy books from the French by authors such as Jean-Pierre Vernant, Marcel Detienne, and Philippe Descola. MARSHALL SAHLINS is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. A member of the British Academy, he is the author of many books published by the University of Chicago Press.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Deals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature.
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.
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0,79 Kg
Uit jaar:
2013-2014
Uitvoering:
Paperback
Drukkerij
in Poland, Wroclaw /In the United States of America
Uitgever(Label):
The University of Chicago Press
Omslagillustratie:
Getty Images
Vertaald door:
Janet Lloyd
Oorsponkelijke titel
Par-delà nature et culture
Aantal pagina's
463
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