Name: Beyond Nature and Culture
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Author: Descola, Philippe ; Lloyd, Janet ; Sahlins, Marshall
ISBN: 9780226212364

Type

Physical Book

Author

Philippe Descola

Preface by

Marshall Sahlins

Translated by

Janet Lloyd

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

488

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.8 x 15.6 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.64

ISBN13

9780226212364

Synopsis "Beyond Nature and Culture"

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 from 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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