Beyond Nature and Culture - Couverture souple

Descola, Philippe; Sahlins, Marshall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022621236X ISBN 13 : 9780226212364

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 022621236X
• ISBN 13: 9780226212364
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 485