| Description |
xxii, 463 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-delà nature et culture (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2005) © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2005"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-449) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Philosophy of nature.
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Human ecology.
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73.02 philosophy and theory of ethnology.
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Environment and ecology.
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Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
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Philosophy of nature. (OCoLC)fst01060845
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Kultur. (DE-588)4125698-0
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Kulturelle Entwicklung. (DE-588)4165968-5
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Kulturvergleich. (DE-588)4114328-0
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Mensch. (DE-588)4038639-9
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Natur. (DE-588)4041358-5
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Naturphilosophie. (DE-588)4041408-5
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Naturverständnis. (DE-588)4318394-3
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Weltbild. (DE-588)4065352-3
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Environment and Ecology.
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| Added Author |
Lloyd, Janet, 1934- translator.
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| Added Title |
Par-delà nature et culture. English
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| Translation Of: |
Descola, Philippe. Par-delà nature et culture. [Paris?] : NRF : Gallimard, ©2005 (OCoLC)61701065 |
| ISBN |
9780226144450 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226144453 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
40022471644 |
| ISBN |
9780226212364 |
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022621236X |
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