Beyond Nature and Culture

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext "Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-delaa nature et culture (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2005) A Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2005"--title page verso. Zusammenfassung Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, the author formulates a sophisticated new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature.

Product details

• Authors: Philippe Descola, Descola Philippe
• Assisted by: Sahlins Marshall (Foreword), Janet Lloyd (Translation), Lloyd Janet (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2013
• EAN: 9780226144450
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14445-0
• No. of pages: 520
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy