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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 public...

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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...

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The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociol...

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The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociol...

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The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledg...

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The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledg...

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Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departur...

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While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, thes...

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The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociol...

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The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociol...

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In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the p...

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In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the p...

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"A massive classic of modern anthropology...that reads better than most fiction". A Choice Outstanding Academic Book.

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Revêtue de significations multiples, la nature a longtemps formé le pÿle principal d?une série d?oppositions dans la pensée européenne : nature et culture, nature et surnature, nature et art, nature et esprit, nature et histoire? Des études...

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Ce livre réunit les contributions au colloque organisé au Colläge de France en novembre 2008 ÿ l?occasion du centenaire de Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009). Au cours de cette longue vie, ponctuée par une trentaine de livres et plus de quatre ...

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Seit der Zeit der Renaissance ist unser Weltbild von einer zentralen Unterscheidung bestimmt: der zwischen Natur und Kultur. Dort die von Naturgesetzen regierte, unpersönliche Welt der Tiere und Dinge, hier die Menschenwelt mit ihrer individuellen...

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Der Stamm der Jívaro-Indianer lebt im Amazonasbecken an der Grenze zwischen Ecuador und Peru. Mit diesem unbekannten Volk macht uns Philippe Descola in seinem ersten großen Werk vertraut, das auf beeindruckende Weise verstehende Beobachtung und br...

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Eine Yupik-Maske aus Alaska, eine Malerei der Aborigines, eine Miniaturlandschaft aus der Song-Dynastie, ein holländisches Interieurgemälde aus dem 17. Jahrhundert, abstrakte Kunst aus dem 20. Jahrhundert : Was ein Bild zeigt oder gerade nicht zei...

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Considerado uno de los grandes antropólogos franceses del siglo XX, Philippe Descola realiza sus primeros trabajos de campo en la Amazonia. Como etnógrafo, convive durante años con los jÿbaros achuar, observando la relación que estos amerindi...

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Pensar lo visual antropológicamente conlleva comprender las formasen que distintos pueblos alrededor del mundo se han enfrentado a loque hacen las imágenes ?no siempre diferenciada de la escritura?,asÿ como el lugar que se les ha asignado en la...

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El multinaturalismo del antropólogo brasilero Eduardo Viveiros de Castro y el animismo del francés Philippe Descola se han popularizado más o menos juntos bajo el nombre de perspectivismo amerindio y se están expandiendo viralmente desde la Am...

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Lévi-Strauss, quien suele ser considerado políticamente como un conservador y que en 1937 aún era marxista, desarrolló la idea de que la antropología es revolucionaria porque nos permite vernos a nosotros a través de los ojos de los demás y así no...

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