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Composition of Worlds - Interviews With Pierre Charbonnier

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Informationen zum Autor Philippe Descola  is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at EHESS, Paris. Klappentext In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the last forty years.A student of Lévi-Strauss, Descola did ethnographic research among the Achuar of the upper Amazon in the late 1970s, focussing on how native societies relate to their environment. In this book he sheds fresh light on the evolution of his thinking from structuralism to an anthropology beyond the human, on the critique of the modern separation between nature and society, and above all on the genesis and scope of his master work Beyond Nature and Culture. This synthesis of the ways in which humans view their relationships with other-than-humans proposes four major 'compositions of worlds' (animism, naturalism, totemism, analogism) that characterise our ways of inhabiting the earth.Presented in the form of an extended conversation with Pierre Charbonnier, this book is both a lucid introduction to the work of one of the most original anthropologists writing today and an impassioned plea for a pluralism of ontologies that would be more welcoming to the diversity of beings. Zusammenfassung In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the past forty years.A student of Lévi-Strauss, Descola conducted ethnographic research among the Achuar of the upper Amazon in the late 1970s, focusing on how native societies relate to their environment. In this book he sheds fresh light on the evolution of his thinking from structuralism to an anthropology beyond the human, on the critique of the modern separation between nature and society, and above all on the genesis and scope of his major work Beyond Nature and Culture. This synthesis of the ways in which humans view their relationships with non-humans proposes four schemas for the 'composition of worlds' (animism, naturalism, totemism, analogism) that characterize our ways of inhabiting the earth. Presented in the form of an extended conversation with Pierre Charbonnier, this book is both a lucid introduction to the work of one of the most original anthropologists writing today and an impassioned plea for ontologies that are more accommodating of the diversity of beings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword to the English edition I. A taste for inquiry                                             Philosophical journeys                                             Discovering the mind, discovering the world                                   Among the tribe of anthropologists                                       Entering the pantheon     II. An Amazonian sojourn and the challenges of ethnography The world of the forest                                            Living and working among the Achuar                                      The trial of return                                  III. The diversity of natures                                                The four corners of the world                                                Methodological questions                                                Conceptual reform                                                  Forms of figuration IV. The contemporary world in the light of anthropology We Moderns                                                   From anthropology to ecology                                       Political anthropology       ...

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