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Beyond Nature and Culture (Hardcover)
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Beyond Nature and Culture (Hardcover)
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Successor to Claude Levi-Strauss 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 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
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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