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" Beyond nature and culture / "
Philippe Descola ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Marshall Sahlins.
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625206
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Par-delà nature et culture.English
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Descola, Philippe
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Beyond nature and culture /\ Philippe Descola ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Marshall Sahlins.
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xxii, 463 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780226144450 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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: 0226144453 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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: 9780226212364 (pbk.)
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: 022621236X (pbk.)
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"Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-delà nature et culture (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2005) © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2005"--title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-449) and index.
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Trompe-l'oeil nature. Configurations of continuity ; The wild and the domesticated ; The great divide -- The structures of experience. The schemas of practice ; Relations with the self and relations with others -- The dispositions of being. Animism restored ; Totemism as an ontology ; The certainties of naturalism ; The dizzying prospects of analogy ; Terms, relations, categories -- The ways of the world. The institution of collectives ; Metaphysics of morals -- An ecology of relations. Forms of attachment ; The traffic of souls ; Histories of structures -- Epilogue : the spectrum of possibilities.
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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"--provided by publisher.
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Philosophy of nature.
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Human ecology.
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304.2
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BD581.D3813 2013
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Lloyd, Janet,1934-
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