Beyond nature and culture

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Deals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature.



Successor to Claude Levi-Strausa 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 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.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 22 oktober 2014

Aantal pagina's: 488

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Philippe Descola

Hoofdredacteur: Janet Lloyd

Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Chicago Press

Eerste Vertaler: Janet Lloyd

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 17 mm

Product hoogte: 3 mm

Product lengte: 23 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 154 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 34 mm

Verpakking lengte: 230 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 760 g

EAN: 9780226212364

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